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It may be considered AAA... or AA'A".... EXPLANATION Most Folk and Popular songs are strophic in form, including the Twelve Bar Blues , all of which may be in Simple Verse or Simple Verse-chorus Form . The " Verse - Chorus -verse" ( Verse-chorus Form ) of most popular music songs may be interpreted as parts of a larger strophic verse- Refrain form. In addition, many songs from the Classical Music tradition are in strophic form, from the 14th century French Rondeau of the Ars Nova , to the 17th century French Air De Cour , to the 19th century German Lieder ; indeed strophic form has been one of the most durable of all musical forms, probably because it is intuitively most obvious to have similar music accompanying repeated stanzas of verse. A very similar form is Theme And Variations form. In this form, there is a musical melody (the theme), followed by many altered versions of it (the variations). The variations are all altered forms of the theme; the theme is always present, in some form however disguised, in each of the variations. The theme may be either original or previously written by another composer. SEE ALSO |
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