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  2. Song structure - Wikipedia

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    Song structure is the arrangement of a song, [1] and is a part of the songwriting process. It is typically sectional, which uses repeating forms in songs.Common piece-level musical forms for vocal music include bar form, 32-bar form, versechorus form, ternary form, strophic form, and the 12-bar blues.

  3. Verse–chorus form - Wikipedia

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    Versechorus form is a musical form going back to the 1840s, in such songs as "Oh! Susanna ", " The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze ", and many others. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It became passé in the early 1900s, with advent of the AABA (with verse) form in the Tin Pan Alley days.

  4. Bridge (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, especially Western popular music, a bridge is a contrasting section that prepares for the return of the original material section. In a piece in which the original material or melody is referred to as the "A" section, the bridge may be the third eight-bar phrase in a 32-bar form (the B in AABA), or may be used more loosely in verse-chorus form, or, in a compound AABA form, used as a ...

  5. Thirty-two-bar form - Wikipedia

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    sectional verse The opening section, often 16 bars in length, which resembles recitative from opera. Refrain or chorus Verse-refrain form or AABA form The 32-bar section, composed of four separate 8-bar sections, taking the form AABA. None: Verse Any of the three individual 8 bar "A" sections Bridge Bridge or middle 8 or release or primary bridge

  6. Strophic form - Wikipedia

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    "Das Wandern", the opening song in Franz Schubert's song cycle Die schöne Müllerin, an example of a strophic song. Strophic form – also called verse-repeating form, chorus form, AAA song form, or one-part song form – is a song structure in which all verses or stanzas of the text are sung to the same music. [1]

  7. Section (music) - Wikipedia

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    Rhythm changes bridge (B section of an AABA form) in the key of C. Play ⓘ. In music, a section is a complete, but not independent, musical idea. [1] Types of sections include the introduction or intro, exposition, development, recapitulation, verse, chorus or refrain, conclusion, coda or outro, fadeout, bridge or interlude.

  8. Musical form - Wikipedia

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    In music, form refers to the structure of a musical composition or performance.In his book, Worlds of Music, Jeff Todd Titon suggests that a number of organizational elements may determine the formal structure of a piece of music, such as "the arrangement of musical units of rhythm, melody, and/or harmony that show repetition or variation, the arrangement of the instruments (as in the order of ...

  9. Breakdown (music) - Wikipedia

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    The placement followed the pattern of a traditional pop recording: it replaced the bridge typically found in such a record after the second chorus. A later example is the breakdown in " My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It) " by En Vogue : a sampled male voice can be heard introducing this part of the record (at 3:27) with the sentence "and now ...