Here is not the place to argue musical grammar with him: placement of accents, the rushing of note values or coherence of tempo.

Indeed, each accent, each pause for breath, was obviously the fruit of careful reflection on matters of musical and poetic grammar.

The musical grammar - strict, transparent - feels as old as time.

But an extension of musical grammar, like Schoenberg's, forms no part of his agenda.

Maybe it is the language's isolation from old musical grammars that dictates seriousness and disallows the frivolous.

His aim is to build new musical grammars - if necessary, from existing ones.

There is still plenty of traditional scholarship around, discussing the dating of manuscripts, analyzing performance practice and scrutinizing musical grammar.

It was the tonal "resolutions" and "preparations" that increasingly seemed "only decorative, vestigial remnants of an old musical grammar."

There are also problems of musical grammar.

Compositions are created by first constructing a musical grammar, which is then used to create comprehensible musical pieces.