{"id":1272,"date":"2013-03-10T21:09:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T02:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/featured-teachers\/chris-salter\/the-elements-of-music-part-3-binary-nature-of-music-continued-2\/"},"modified":"2016-03-05T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T16:44:53","slug":"music-structures-like-to-be-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/blog\/elements-of-music-1\/music-structures-like-to-be-round\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elements Of Music 3 &#8211; Music Structures &#8220;Like&#8221; To Be Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Elements Of Music 3 - Music Structures &quot;Like&quot; To Be Round\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YOOzz8Kb2X0?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the third video of our Elements Of Music series,\u00a0 Music Wizard founder Chris Salter discusses how music structures like to be \"round\".<\/p>\n<p>Topics include:<\/p>\n<p>a) Rhythms repeat and different parts of the same length can be represented usefully as concentric circles on a log. Some very elaborate rhythms like Classical Indian music will have circles within larger circles like those created by the children's drawing game Spirograph or the inner workings of gears on a clock for second, minute and hour.<br \/>\nb) Harmonic patterns can be cyclical like typical Blues pattern.<br \/>\nc) Tonally no matter how far developmentally the harmonies go they like to come \"home\" to the starting tonality or key. The exceptions prove the \"rule\".<br \/>\nd) Melodic song forms tend to circle back to repeat the beginning melody.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples from http:\/\/www.smccd.edu:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">i) \"<strong>AAA\" Strophic<\/strong> \u2013 A melody is repeated, each time with different words.\u00a0 Sheila Davis calls this \u201cAAA\u201d form, since we often get just 3\u00a0 repetitions in popular music, although many repetitions may be used.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">ii) <strong>\"ABABAB\" Verse-Chorus or Verse-Refrain<\/strong> \u2013 a series of verses (changing lyrics) alternates with an unchanging refrain.\u00a0 The refrain is\u00a0 often called the \u201cchorus,\u201d because it is common for verses to be sung by a soloist and the soloist to be joined by multiple voices (the\u00a0 \u201cchorus\u201d) singing in the refrain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">iii) \"<strong>AAB\"\u00a0 Blues<\/strong> \u2013 12-bar most common; AAB pattern in lyrics and melody (often a \u201cquestion-question-answer\u201d pattern).\u00a0 Three 4-bar phrases.\u00a0 Blues variants \u2013 8-bar, 16-bar; balanced phrases (music and lyrics).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">iv) <strong>\"AABA\" 32-bar AABA form<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 In songs from the 20s, 30s &amp; 40s, many songs have rambling introductions which lead to 32-bar AABA\u00a0 structures.\u00a0 The A phrases often come to harmonic closure; the B or bridge phrase often provides harmonic, rhythmic, melodic or textural contrast.\u00a0 Often extended or expanded (for example, AABAA or AABABA) or with a coda\u00a0 Allen Forte\u2019s Listening to Classic American Popular Songs explores this form in detail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">v) <strong>Through-Composed<\/strong> - Some songs, particularly in the art-song tradition (epitomized by Schubert), are \u201cthrough-composed,\u201d meaning that there are no unvaried repeats of musical ideas.\u00a0 This is very rare in popular music. 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