An eight-measure phrase is called a Large phrase.

For illustration:-- [Illustration: Example 38.

Fragment of Beethoven.] There is not the slightest evidence of repose or interruption in the fourth measure, nor of a new beginning in the fifth, wherefore the cadence is not expected until four more measures have passed by.

The inferior points of repose in the upper parts, at the beginning of the 5th, 6th and 7th measures, serve only to establish melodic, or rather rhythmic, variety, and have no cadential force whatever.

See Mendelssohn, Song No.