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The 1958 ''Encyclopédie Fasquelle'' defines a period as follows:

"A complex Phrase , in which the various parts are enchained."

"In traditional music...a group of Measures comprising a natural division of the Melody ; usually regarded as comprising two or more contrasting or complementary phrases and ending with a Cadence ." (''Harvard Dictionary of Music'', 1969)

SOURCE

Nattiez, Jean-Jacques (1990). ''Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music'' (''Musicologie générale et sémiologue'', 1987). Translated by Carolyn Abbate (1990). ISBN 0-691-02714-5.

---(1969). ''Harvard Dictionary of Music''.