# Music and Movement · Figure Skating Level 7: Upper-Advanced

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Music and Movement in Figure Skating (Level 7: Upper-Advanced) on Insporta: 20 sourced facts behind 2 tests. Covers: phrase and form.

Phrase and form, musical sensitivity and timing, matching the music.

## Test 1: Phrase and form

- Form refers to the structure and organisation of a musical composition. (Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023))
- A phrase is a unit of musical meter that has a complete musical sense of its own. (Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023))
- The choreographic phrase follows the musical phrase: its beginning, its climax and its end. (Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023))
- Moving accurately as the music requires covers melody, rhythm, harmony, tempo, dynamic and articulation. (Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023))
- Step and choreographic sequences that do not partly or fully correspond to the music cannot start higher than +2. (Source: ISU Communication 2788, Levels of Difficulty and GOE Guidelines, Single & Pair Skating 2026/27)
- 'Element matches the music' is a bullet for jumps, spins, step and choreographic elements alike. (Source: ISU Communication 2788, Levels of Difficulty and GOE Guidelines, Single & Pair Skating 2026/27)
- A spin not performed to the music gets the GOE reduction 'does not correspond to the music'. (Source: ISU Handbook for Referees & Judges, Single and Pair Skating 2026/27)
- A phrase opens, builds to its high point and closes, and the movement should do the same. (Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023))
- Beats build phrases, and phrases are organised into the form, the structure of the whole composition. (Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023))
- In D every unit starts and ends with a phrase. In A, B and C the units cut across the phrase lines. (Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023))

## Test 2: Hearing the music

- Finesse demonstrates an appreciation of musical details, accents and nuances. (Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023))
- Steps and movements follow the timing when it is clearly identifiable, or required by the rules or a dance style. (Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023))
- Because the skater truly hears the music and appreciates it deeply, its details are translated into movement. (Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023))
- Presentation is how the program is performed in connection with the music; Composition is how it is designed. (Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023))
- A movement can intensify meaning or underline a musical accent or nuance, and the force should vary through the program. (Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023))
- The choreographic spin bullets include an intentional use of speed that matches the music. (Source: ISU Communication 2788, Levels of Difficulty and GOE Guidelines, Single & Pair Skating 2026/27)
- Its first bullet is matching the music and reflecting the concept or character of the program. (Source: ISU Communication 2788, Levels of Difficulty and GOE Guidelines, Single & Pair Skating 2026/27)
- Hearing and appreciating the music comes first; the details are then translated into movement. (Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023))
- Expressiveness and projection come first, then variety and contrast, then musical sensitivity and timing. (Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023))
- In C every dot lands on a tall tick. A is late each time, B misses half, D moves on the weak beats. (Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023))

Sources: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023); ISU Communication 2788 (2026/27); ISU Handbook for Referees & Judges 2026/27; ISU Sports Rules, Figure Skating (2026), Rules 365 and 450; Stars on Ice and Art on Ice histories. Original questions authored, nothing reproduced. Music, clothing and eligibility rules belong to General Rules.

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