structural outline

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Instead, it was a structural outline, detailing specific beats or story objectives that had to be reached in a given scene.

From The Verge • Mar. 28, 2018

Music evolved from this ballad forms, as I have said, the structural outline of the opera.

From Richard Wagner Composer of Operas by Runciman, John F.

Here there is no structural outline to the planting, no defining of the area, no continuous flow of the form and color.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

That form of tonal succession in which the tones of the melody follow rather persistently the structural outline of chords.

From The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe by Cole, Fay-Cooper