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- Using or containing strophes.
Extensive Definition
In music, strophic form (or chorus
form) is a sectional
and/or additive way of
structuring
a piece of music based on
the repetition of one formal section or block played repeatedly. It
is the musical analogue of repeated stanzas in poetry or lyrics:
where the text repeats the same rhyme scheme from one stanza to the next, the
accompanying music for each stanza is either the same or very
similar from one stanza to the next.
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.
See also
strophic in Danish: Strofisk form
strophic in Italian: Chorus (jazz)
strophic in Hebrew: מבנה סטרופי
strophic in Chinese: 一部曲式