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Most rock songs fall into one of three formal types: simple verse (with a short, repeating verse-refrain section), AABA (with a verse-refrain and a contrasting bridge), and verse-chorus (with an alternation between verse and chorus, usually with contrasting material after the second chorus). This chapter adopts this framework, though it also emphasizes the strong connections between AABA and verse-chorus forms. Since the 1960s, verse-chorus form has been predominant; together, a verse and chorus form a “verse-chorus unit,” or VCU. An issue of particular interest is the opposition between verses and choruses; the two section types turn out to have a number of distinctive, contrasting features. After surveying other section types, the chapter examines some songs with interesting and unusual formal structures.
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Most rock songs fall into one of three formal types: simple verse (with a short, repeating verse-refrain section), AABA (with a verse-refrain and a contrasting bridge), and verse-chorus (with an alternation between verse and chorus, usually with contrasting material after the second chorus).
This chapter adopts this framework, though it also emphasizes the strong connections between AABA and verse-chorus forms.
Since the 1960s, verse-chorus form has been predominant; together, a verse and chorus form a “verse-chorus unit,” or VCU.
An issue of particular interest is the opposition between verses and choruses; the two section types turn out to have a number of distinctive, contrasting features.
After surveying other section types, the chapter examines some songs with interesting and unusual formal structures.
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