Verse (popular music) - Factbites
 Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Verse (popular music)


    Note: these results are not from the primary (high quality) database.


Related Topics

In the News (Fri 1 Jan 10)

  
 Song structure
I showed the basic fundamentals of song structure, rhyming, length of verse/chorus I had critiqued songs with those things,and wanted to show where I was getting that from.
Notice in some songs that the title is used in the 1stline or last line of the verses as well.
Countless secular wildly successful songs are 4 line choruses, short verses, and a distinct, rhyme pattern that is the same.
mattressemporium.com /dave/articles/songstructure.htm   (5696 words)

  
 Articles - Extro
The term is also common in musical compositions, in which case it can also be known as the coda.
In contemporary television, an extro is theme music present over closing credits or played at the end of a program (common in news programs or game shows when the lights go down and the camera angle is wide).
Classically, the extro was a closing scene where the characters reflected on the preceding story, often directly addressing the audience in verse.
www.mildhome.com /articles/Outro   (213 words)

  
 School of Music:
xiv) 'Beat Generation/Rock Generation: Observations on a cultural continuum', Conference: 'Literature and Music in the Study of Culture', Open University event at Worcester College, Oxford, May 2002
BBC Radio 4, The Archive Hour " Nonsense Verse ", April 1st, 2000
BBC Radio 2, "The Music Box", two part series, November 29th and December 6th, 2003
www.leeds.ac.uk /music/staff/srw   (213 words)

  
 Learn more about List of poems in the online encyclopedia.
See rap, roots of rap music also, on the boundaries: verse+music against verse against verse set to music.
Where verse is set to music, the distinction between poem and song may become artificial.
This is perhaps recognised in the way popular songs have lyrics: so see list of songs by name.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_poems.html   (439 words)

  
 Music of Martinique and Guadeloupe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Though Martinique and Guadeloupe are most frequently known only for the internationally-renowned zouk style, the islands have also produced popular musicians in various updated styles of traditional biguine, chouval bwa and gwo ka.
Biguine vidé is participatory music, with the bandleader singing a verse and the audience responding.
Its popularity abroad died relatively quickly, but it lasted as a major force in popular music on Martinique until Haitian compas took over in the 1950s and mini-jazz artists like Les Gentlemen and Les Vikings de Guadeloupe became popular in the late 1960s..
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Martinique_and_Guadeloupe   (1348 words)

  
 Facts about topic: (Verse-chorus form)
Verse-chorus form is a musical form (additional info and facts about musical form) common in popular music (Any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)) and predominate in rock (Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust) since the 1960s.
Songs that use the same music for the verse and chorus, such as the twelve bar blues (additional info and facts about twelve bar blues), though the lyrics feature different verses and a repeated chorus, are in simple verse-chorus form.
Songs which use different music for the verse and chorus are in contrasting verse-chorus form.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/ve/verse-chorus_form.htm   (488 words)

  
 Melody - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rock music, melodic music, and other forms of popular music and folk music tend to pick one or two melodies (verse and chorus) and stick with them; much variety may occur in the phrasing and lyrics.
While in both most popular music and classical music of the common practice period pitch and duration are of primary importance in melodies, the contemporary music of the 20th and 21st centuries pitch and duration have lessened in importance and quality has gained importance, often primary.
In music, a melody is a series of linear events or a succession, not a simultaneity as in a chord.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melodic   (637 words)

  
 Venezuelan Music and Instruments
The music at the velorios stops periodically to permit the recitation of décimas, a traditional ten-line Spanish verse form kept alive by oral traditionalists recognized for their cultural role and unique abilities in keeping alive this specialized folkloric art.
Thus, among the more popular instruments in today’s folk and popular music are the guitar and the mandolin, with their relatives, the cuatro and the bandola; the harp and violin; and, along the Colombian border, the tiple.
Native American music is concentrated in the latter, toward the interior of the country, while African manifestations are heard mostly along the central coast to the north.
www.lafi.org /magazine/articles/ven-music.html   (637 words)

  
 Music, Dance and Drama
lt is extremely complicated in musical structure, and its lyrics are characterized by the strict use of the Andalusian dialect or classical Arabic and by the construction of verse in the style of classical poetry.
Moroccan Arab popular music, "Griha ", is musically similar to, but simpler than, the classical music and uses the popular, rather than the classical language.
Classical music in the moroccan sense is the Andalusian music of the tenth to fifteenth centuries.
www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Country_Specific/Morco_music.html   (637 words)

  
 FSU, Web-MC, Web Mediated Course Assistant/ resources.html
In America, dancers favored the march over the waltz as a musical form since the regular rhythm in 2/4, 4/4, or 6/8 meter was perfect for the relatively new and wildly popular two-step (eventually, "fox-trot" replaced "march" as a term on sheet music).
Where music was concerned, the period prior to the war saw the emergence of popular forms associated primarily with the minstrel show; this was music intended for mass consumption.
The plena was yet another musical form that was swallowed up by the salsa wave of the early 1970’s, although the group Plena Libre spearheaded a resurgence of plena in the early 1990’s.
muh3053-01.sp02.fsu.edu /resources.html   (18929 words)

  
 Music, Dance and Drama
lt is extremely complicated in musical structure, and its lyrics are characterized by the strict use of the Andalusian dialect or classical Arabic and by the construction of verse in the style of classical poetry.
Moroccan Arab popular music, "Griha ", is musically similar to, but simpler than, the classical music and uses the popular, rather than the classical language.
Classical music in the moroccan sense is the Andalusian music of the tenth to fifteenth centuries.
www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Country_Specific/Morco_music.html   (18929 words)

  
 Bridge (music) -
In popular music, a bridge is a contrasting section which also prepares for the return of the original material section.
See also: song structure (popular music), Break (music), interlude.
The bridge may be the middle-eight in a thirty-two-bar form (the B in AABA), or it may be used more loosely in verse-chorus form, or, in a compound AABA form, used as a contrast to a full AABA section, as in "Every Breath You Take".
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Bridge_%28music%29   (288 words)

  
 FSU, Web-MC, Web Mediated Course Assistant/ resources.html
In America, dancers favored the march over the waltz as a musical form since the regular rhythm in 2/4, 4/4, or 6/8 meter was perfect for the relatively new and wildly popular two-step (eventually, "fox-trot" replaced "march" as a term on sheet music).
Where music was concerned, the period prior to the war saw the emergence of popular forms associated primarily with the minstrel show; this was music intended for mass consumption.
Form: Big-band performances generally follow the theme-and-variation procedure used in jazz: introduction; statement of the melody; a series of solos by different members of the band; perhaps a written-out variation featuring an entire section; and a restatement of the melody.
muh3053-01.sp02.fsu.edu /resources.html   (288 words)

  
 FOCUS on MOROCCO - Music
lt is extremely complicated in musical structure, and its lyrics are characterized by the strict use of the Andalusian dialect or classical Arabic and by the construction of verse in the style of classical poetry.
oroccan Arab popular music, "Griha ", is musically similar to, but simpler than, the classical music and uses the popular, rather than the classical language.
lassical music in the moroccan sense is the Andalusian music of the tenth to fifteenth centuries.
www.focusmm.com /morocco/mo_musmn.htm   (250 words)

  
 Venezuelan Music and Instruments
The music at the velorios stops periodically to permit the recitation of décimas, a traditional ten-line Spanish verse form kept alive by oral traditionalists recognized for their cultural role and unique abilities in keeping alive this specialized folkloric art.
Thus, among the more popular instruments in today’s folk and popular music are the guitar and the mandolin, with their relatives, the cuatro and the bandola; the harp and violin; and, along the Colombian border, the tiple.
Native American music is concentrated in the latter, toward the interior of the country, while African manifestations are heard mostly along the central coast to the north.
www.lafi.org /magazine/articles/ven-music.html   (1893 words)

  
 Music, Dance and Drama
lt is extremely complicated in musical structure, and its lyrics are characterized by the strict use of the Andalusian dialect or classical Arabic and by the construction of verse in the style of classical poetry.
Moroccan Arab popular music, "Griha ", is musically similar to, but simpler than, the classical music and uses the popular, rather than the classical language.
Classical music in the moroccan sense is the Andalusian music of the tenth to fifteenth centuries.
www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Country_Specific/Morco_music.html   (1893 words)

  
 Travel Agents in West Bengal,Tour operators in West Bengal..
Culture: Bengal, the cultural centre of India has produced 4 Nobel Laureates: Tagore, Mother Teresa, Satyajit Ray and Amartya Sen. The theatre is popular, and both amateur and professional performances are quite sophisticated., traditional open-air performances, are popular in the countryside, along with kavigan an impromptu duel in musical verse between village poets.
West Bengal, is bounded on the north by Bhutan and the state of Sikkim, on the east by Bangladesh and the state of Assam, on the south by the Bay of Bengal, on the southwest by the state of Orissa, and on the west by Nepal and the state of Bihar.
Later Sasanka became King of Bengal and is said to have played important role in north-eastern India in the early half of the seventh century.
www.infoindiatravel.com /states/west-bengal.html   (1893 words)

  
 Precious Lord Take My Hand.com - Holy Bible, Book Divine - Most Popular Christian Hymns and Gospel Songs at Precious Lord Take My Hand and Other Popular Christian Hymns and Gospel Songs!
Words: John Burton, Sr., Youth’s Mon­i­tor in Verse, 1803.
Music: “Aletta,” Will­iam B. Brad­bu­ry, Ju­bi­lee (New York: 1858).
Psalm 119:11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You.
www.preciouslordtakemyhand.com /christianhymns/holybiblebookdivine.html   (317 words)

  
 Chorus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In popular music, chorus is used to mean the refrain of a song, which often sharply contrasts the verse melodically, rhythmically, and harmonically, and assumes a higher level of dynamics and activity, often with added instrumentation.
Chorus form, or strophic 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.
In classical music a chorus is any substantial group of performers in a play, revue, musical or opera who act more or less as one.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chorus   (317 words)

  
 Glossary for Week 1
Rockabilly : the form of popular music in the 1950s that resulted from the influence of hillbilly singers on the new rock and roll music.
The length of an entire piece of music, the length of each section (movement, chorus), the length of a phrase or musical thought, or the length of single tone.
Sonata form : a structure that composers from the Classic period and since have commonly used for the first movement of a sonata, symphony, concerto, or string quartet (or other similar chamber music work).
www.wsu.edu /Music153/Glossary.htm   (317 words)

  
 Strophic form DigiMelon.COM
The "verse-chorus-verse" (verse-chorus form) of most popular music songs may be interpreted as parts of a larger a strophic verse-refrain form.
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.
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.
www.digimelon.com /Chorus_form/index.html   (220 words)

  
 rick james obituary, super freak, funk
Brown was a great churchy soul shouter, but as his career proceeded from the late fifties to the early seventies, he abandoned melody and the verse/chorus form, and began to construct songs out of repetitive verbal and musical phrases: "Cold Sweat," "I Feel Good," Sex Machine," and so on.
The history of American popular music would be poorer without it, and everything that has happened since in black popular music depends on it.
Funk - the dominant black pop form between the death of soul and the birth of hip hop - was invented by James Brown and his band, the JBs.
www.crispinsartwell.com /rickjames.htm   (524 words)

  
 Melody. Who is Melody? What is Melody? Where is Melody? Definition of Melody. Meaning of Melody.
Rock music and other forms of popular music and folk music tend to pick one or two melodies (verse and chorus) and stick with them; much variety may occur in the phrasing and lyrics.
In music, a melody is a series of notes played in succession, that is not simultaneously as in a chord.
It consists of one or more musical phrases, and is usually repeated throughout a song or piece in various forms.
www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Melody   (524 words)

  
 Popular Music After 9/11: Puttling Politics Into Verse
Critics jumped the gun and for all we know the most universal response to 9/11 within popular music has yet to be recorded.
Musically insignificant, the importance of "Let's Roll" lies in the fact that it is one of the first original songs with popular radio support that directly addressed 9/11.
Individually, the songs are flat, but examined within a quilt work of other musical responses, a dynamic array of emotions in the aftermath of 9/11 becomes present within popular music in a manner otherwise not found within the media at large.
www.frictionmagazine.com /song/news/911music_print.html   (3412 words)

  
 Verse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In popular music a verse roughly corresponds with a poetic stanza.
Verse may also use rhyme and other technical devices that are often associated with poetry.
Verse protocol is a networking protocol that replaces troublesome file transfers between graphics software with real time communication.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Verse   (3412 words)

  
 best song lyrics - Song Lyrics and Music
My life is the song Best Lyrics and Information about music``You can request every lyrics and search the lyrics much more Love Song Lyrics Lyrics to many popular love songs and ballads.
Music Download [VERSE 1:] My best friend say She sick of me cryin on the phone...
Best Friends Lyrics - Song Music Lyrics - HearSayClub.com
www.lyricsnmore.com /tunes/bestsonglyrics   (3412 words)

  
 About the USA - Arts & Entertainment > Music
The history of popular music since the 1970s is basically that of rock music, which has grown to include hundreds of musical styles.
Blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know.
Music composition of the greater part of the 20th century, especially the period after World War II, is characterized by experimentation and a constant search for new systems of writing music, new forms and new styles.
usa.usembassy.de /arts-music.htm   (1058 words)

  
 Early 19th century popular psalmody in the Isle of Man (Maddrell 1994)
Underneath the music, the words of the first verse and chorus are written in the same hand as the headings which indicate the psalm to which each piece of music is to be sung.
The music and headings are in the same hand as those of MSS 435A and 438A; and the words are apparently in the hand of Henry Watterson, whose name appears at the foot of several pages.
This, and their music's failure to conform with polite notions of correctness and decorum, led to the decline of the choirs and the effective suppression of much of their music by early Victorian reformers.
www.westgallerymusic.co.uk /articles/Maddrell94.html   (4359 words)

  
 The Music Man (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Music Man is a song popular with children where participants act out different intruments for each verse with specific actions.
Football section: I am the music man, i come from far away and i can playyyyyyyy.
The Music Man: Yeeaah-yeah-yeah-yeah Audience: Yeeaah-yeah-yeah-yeah The Music Man: Ogie ogie ogie!
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Music_Man_(song)   (277 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.