musical passage

Questions about musical passage

What does musical passage mean?

musical passage means "a short section of a musical composition".

What is another word for musical passage?

Close synonyms include passage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is musical passage a common word?

musical passage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.