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Strophic form

Strophic form is a way of structuring a piece of music.

It may be considered AA... or AA'....

The most folk and popular songs are strophic in form, including the twelve bar blues. Thus the "verse-chorus-verse" of most popular music songs is a strophic verse-refrain form. The chorus often sharply constrasts the verse melodically, rhythmically, and harmonically, and assumes a higher level of dynamics and activity, often with added instrumentation.

See: Musical form

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