![]() Perhaps, like most good-hearted people, you have every second of Television’s landmark debut of psychedelic punk freakouts Marquee Moon memorized, and you already knew that Tom Verlaine and company only needed eight songs to sear their opus into your brain forever. We’re talking about albums, and when it comes to albums, it takes eight songs to make an album and more than eight songs to make an album that is longer than it needs to be. But that’s not what we’re discussing here. Shout out to classic EPs everywhere, but especially the best EP of all time (in my humble opinion), R.E.M.’s Chronic Town. Conversely, if there are less than eight songs, you’re not dealing with an album, you’re dealing with an EP, which is all well and good. This is obviously too risky of a proposition. You’re risking filler, and inviting the audience to hit the skip button. Once you get past eight songs, you’re gilding the lily. Eight sits right in the middle of what a proper album should be. ![]() In numerology and tarot card circles, eight is a number that represents balance, and that’s certainly true when it comes to album tracklists. So in the spirit of this enterprise, let us dispense with any further preamble and get right to the point: in this age of streaming-service bloat and seemingly endless albums, artists need to remember that the platonic ideal for a release is eight songs. The term was used to refer to a particularly artful song – the type one composes in songwriters' guilds.We come here today to praise brevity, concision and getting to the point already. The word Bar is most likely a shortening of Barat, denoting a skillful thrust in fencing. It couldn't be, because Bar form was established several centuries before the development of modern metrical notation using bar lines. The "Bar" in Bar form isn't the same "bar" in 32-bar form. Indeed, the Wikipedia article on Rundkanzone linked above notes that Rundkanzone may be described as ABABCB or AABA, with the latter being the usual schematic description of the 32-bar form. The A section wasn't necessarily half the length of the B section, but one may indulge in a bit of anachronistic comparison by noting that making the A section 8 measures long and the B section 16 measures long yields something very much like the classic 20th-century 32-bar popular song form, with the "middle eight" or bridge occupying precisely the same position as the Steg as a point that offers contrast where repetition is expected. The A section was typically shorter than the B section, and the two instances of the A section were sung using different words. Therefore, the first part of the B section is heard only once. Wikipedia further claims (without evidence) that this is the source of the modern sense of "bridge" as an element of musical form.īar form is an AAB form in which the last phrase of the repeated A section is frequently identical to the last phrase of the B section ( Rundkanzone). Now I realize that you subsequently realized that the word didn't start with S, but I would add this to Todd Wilcox's answer suggesting bridge:Īccording to Wikipedia's article on Bar form, the beginning of the Abgesang was known by the Meistersinger as the Steg, which in modern German denotes a particular type of bridge. I'm fairly certain it started with an "S" as well. ![]() It could also be called a pivot or key change. They can be quotes, sound effects, or almost anything. ![]() Segues are not always a significant style change, some of them actually connect the two styles of the songs and have hallmarks of both styles. It's obviously not scratching, sampling, or solo.Ī skit is a separate section that could be anywhere in the song during which some kind of action happens like in a play or radio drama.Ī segue is always at the end of a song but is a short section that is linking material between one song and another song. There's a list of song terms on this site you might have heard of called Genius: The Godfather James Brown called out loudly and often for the bridge in many of his songs.
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