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  2. Cumulative song - Wikipedia

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    A cumulative song is a song with a simple verse structure modified by progressive addition so that each verse is longer than the verse before. Cumulative songs are popular for group singing, in part because they require relatively little memorization of lyrics , and because remembering the previous verse to concatenate it to form the current ...

  3. Lyric setting - Wikipedia

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    Following the identification of a word comes the understanding of meaning, and which meaning the word is intending in the context of the song. If a lyric is not properly set, a word might be mistaken for a different word, or be completely unidentified. Songs are constantly moving forward, so there is little time for the listener to decipher words.

  4. /æ/ raising - Wikipedia

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    Example words Philadelphia General U.S. calf e.g. The calf was born today. caf e.g. Students must eat in the caf. /kɛəf/ versus /kæf/ both homophonous as [kʰæf] ⓘ halve e.g. A knife can halve the bread in two. have e.g. She might have fun. /hɛəv/ versus /hæv/ both homophonous as [hæv] ⓘ manning e.g. He was manning the control panel ...

  5. List of patter songs - Wikipedia

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    Auber: Le domino noir – "Je suis sauvée enfin"; Cornelius: Der Barbier von Bagdad – "Bin Akademiker, Doktor und Chemiker"; Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore – "Udite, Udite, o rustici", middle section (Dulcamara)

  6. Bouba/kiki effect - Wikipedia

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    In one study, participants rated words containing long vowels to refer to longer objects and short vowels to short objects, at least for languages that make a vowel length distinction. [23] The presence of these " synesthesia -like mappings" suggest that this effect may be the neurological basis for sound symbolism , in which sounds are non ...

  7. Muni Long’s song ‘Made For Me’ is the 2000s era R&B banger I ...

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    The post Muni Long’s song ‘Made For Me’ is the 2000s era R&B banger I didn’t even know I needed appeared first on TheGrio. OPINION: A social media trend introduced me to Long’s 2023 ...

  8. Millennial whoop - Wikipedia

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    An earlier use can be heard in the 1984 song "Jungle Love" by The Time, and, arguably, in Baltimora's 1985 hit "Tarzan Boy". [ 5 ] The 2017 song "Millennial Whoop" by American rock band the Pilgrims was written as a response to the idea of older generations looking down upon the younger for using such tropes: the song makes use of the interval ...

  9. Thirty-two-bar form - Wikipedia

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    "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen/Harburg) exemplifies the 20th-century popular 32-bar song. [1]The 32-bar form, also known as the AABA song form, American popular song form and the ballad form, is a song structure commonly found in Tin Pan Alley songs and other American popular music, especially in the first half of the 20th century.