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Here is the phrase:

"Your choir’s vocal harmony is top notch; now, the time has come for some visual harmony. "

 

Eddie Barranco
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    You have considerable leeway for personal preference in how you punctuate your example sentence, and using a semicolon certainly isn't wrong in this situation. Nevertheless, the two pieces of the sentence are sufficiently independent of each other as ideas that I would be inclined to break them into two sentences, by replacing the semicolon with a period: "Your choir’s vocal harmony is top-notch. Now the time has come for some visual harmony." – Sven Yargs Sep 25 '14 at 18:06
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    Though I'm usually a fan of short sentences I rather like the use of the semi-colon here. After all, if we don't use colons and semi-colons they may become endangered species. Like the village shop in England, it is a case of 'use it or lose it'! – WS2 Sep 25 '14 at 19:56
  • @WS2: Surely you meant ye olde village shoppe. – Drew Sep 26 '14 at 03:09
  • Thanks for the clarification. It is much appreciated. Perhaps I can somehow incorporate italic_ye olde village choir_italic here. – Eddie Barranco Sep 26 '14 at 14:26

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It is entirely acceptable to use a semi-colon to indicate a close relationship between sentences.

In this instance, you could certainly use a period in place of the semi-colon, but the choice of using a semi-colon is a good one: it makes the contrast between the two statements more powerful and surprising by emphasizing the connection of 'harmony'. Bravo.

Karl Rookey
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