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This course, Listening for form in popular music, explores form, or how music is organised in time
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This course includes
Hours of videos
5 hours, 37 minutes
Units & Quizzes
19
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It looks at three strategies for communicating form – through the use of specialist terms (such as ‘chorus’ and ‘bridge’), alphabetic designations (for example AABA), and visual diagrams. It also considers how the form of a song works with its lyrics to create meaning.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- Perceive common elements of form in Western popular song (including folksong and the jazz standard) in pieces including 'Suspicious Minds', 'Midnight Special' and 'It's Only a Paper Moon'
- Understand three methods for communicating information about form: specialist terms, alphabetic designations, and visual representations
- Recognise how form and lyrics work together to convey meaning.
Course Currilcum
- Introduction 00:20:00
- Learning outcomes 00:07:00
- Form and popular song 00:15:00
- Verses and choruses 00:20:00
- Identifying choruses 00:15:00
- Identifying verses 00:15:00
- Song structure and meaning 00:20:00
- Other elements of song structure 00:10:00
- The bridge 00:15:00
- The pre-chorus 00:15:00
- Music, meaning and the pre-chorus 00:15:00
- Introductions 00:20:00
- Instrumental interludes 00:25:00
- Endings 00:20:00
- Alphabetic representations of form 00:30:00
- Studying form in traditional dance music 00:20:00
- Strategies for representing form 00:45:00
- Check your learning 00:05:00
- Conclusion 00:05:00
