Usage of "to paraphrase" in music
The term paraphrase in music seems quite clearly defined.
Right coming from searching another term for the fill-ins, echo-ing, answering in a musical dialog of 2 instruments, a singer and piano or guitar, I proposed the term "paraphrasing". Now I've found paraphrasing used in of other answers and comments.
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Now in opposite or better saying in difference to the noun paraphrase and the verb to paraphrase I propose to use the gerund form paraphrasing (adapted from the use by therapists when counselling clients) to distinguish the short comments of an instrument at the phrases of the lead singer.
I'm not sure whether there is evidence for a definition of paraphasing. If yes, thank you for answering.
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I don't think it's right to use the term paraphrase to describe "call and response" type of situation in music.
It could apply to a specific type of "response" that you call "echoing". But what can happen in call and response interplay is much broader. It's more of a musical version of question and answer. Where answer is not a paraphrase of question. It's more likely a contrasting phrase resolving the "question".
It's possible you mean "call and response". "To paraphrase" is to restate in a different way, and in music, it means exactly the same thing. One could "paraphrase" a motif from an earlier section of a work, for example. I wouldn't necessarily say two instruments in a duet "paraphrase" each other, but it would likely be understood.
Paraphrase can be conjugated and the like just as it can in other contexts (paraphrased, paraphrasing, etc.)
Edit: Using "Paraphrase" in the title is probably similar to the musical statement "Theme and Variations" (with obvious differences). In a title, "paraphrase" is nonstandard, but frankly you can title a piece whatever you want. Legally, maybe "derivative work". And the perennial "to the tune of" in childrens' music...
No English speaker would recognise your proposed use of "paraphrasing" as a noun. "-ing" is a common ending for verbs, and in the noun form, "a paraphrasis" would be more correct (puh-RAH-fra-SIS; RAH rhymes with Cat), though that's not really an accepted word.
One usage that comes to mind is Liszt's piano arrangements of other computer's works which were sometimes title 'Paraphrase.'
That usage is not necessarily a definition, and wouldn't really make any meaningful distinction between 'paraphrase' as a title word and 'paraphrasing' being the act of arranging other than noun and verb forms of the word.
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