In music, especially Schenkerian analysis, an elision, overlap, or rather reinterpretation (Umdeutung), is the perception, after the fact, of a metrically weak final chord (of a chord progression) as being in a strong position as the initial chord of the next progression. Two phrases may overlap, making the beginning and ending of both happen at the same moment in time, or both phrases and hypermeasures may overlap, making the last bar in the first hypermeasure and the first in the second. Charles Burkhart uses overlap and reinterpretation to distinguish between the overlap of phrases and of both phrase and measure-group, respectively. (Stein 2005)

Source

• Stein, Deborah (2005). Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis, p.328, 330. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195170105.
  • Burkhart, Charles. "The Phrase Rhythm of Chopin's A-flat Major Mazurka, Op. 59, No. 2", p.10, 11n14.