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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Song   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The term musical form is used in two related ways: a generic type of composition such as the symphony or concerto the structure of a particular piece, how its parts are put together to make the whole; this too can be generic, such as binary form or sonata form Musical...
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.
Recitative, a form of composition often used in operas, oratorios, cantatas and similar works, is described as a melodic speech set to music, or a descriptive narrative song in which the music follows the words.
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 Verse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is often sharply contrasted with the chorus or refrain melodically, rhythmically, and harmonically, and assumes a higher level of dynamics and activity, often with added instrumentation.
See: strophic form, verse-chorus form and Thirty-two-bar form.
Verse protocol is a networking protocol that replaces troublesome file transfers between graphics software with real time communication.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Verse   (246 words)

  
 richard middleton quotes .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
"'Form' has always come into being in a dialogue between particular 'instances' and the larger body of work, or 'tradition.'"
"The term "chorus form" is often used to denote a type of performance - typically in jazz or rhythm 'n' blues, but also sometimes in country music and rock 'n' roll - where a given structural unit is repeated an indefinite number of times.
The unit itself may be sectionally elaborate, as in the case of most Tin Pan Alley ballads.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Free verse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Free verse (or vers libre) is a style of poetry that is based on cadences that are more irregular than those of traditional poetic meter.
While traditional poetic forms are based on fixed stress-patterns and syllable counts, free verse is not constrained to use a fixed number of syllables for each line, and distributes its stress accents in irregular patterns.
Free verse may or may not use rhyme.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Free_verse   (313 words)

  
 Verse
Most of these are short and classic forms that rhyme and have meter.
A collection of light verse in a number of forms, a few very short stories, and some scripts for voices.
Annual awards totaling $2,000 (including a $1,000 First Prize) are made for poems in traditional verse forms.
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