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The 32-bar form, also known as the AABA song form, American popular song form and the ballad form, is a song structure commonly found in Tin Pan Alley songs and other American popular music, especially in the first half of the 20th century.
The standard AABA song form is 32-bars long, with each section of the song being 8 bars long. Examples of AABA song form: “Harlem On My Mind” (1933, by Irving Berlin)
27 sie 2024 · The most common structure in Songbook standards is the AABA form, also known as the 32-bar song form because it’s (you guessed it) 32 bars long. To understand how the AABA form works, let’s listen to an example, “These Foolish Things” by Eric Maschwitz and Jack Strachey, sung here by Billie Holiday.
24 lut 2024 · AABA Form, which is also commonly referred to as 32-bar form, is a popular song form with 4 sections. The 4 sections take 32 bars in total, so each one is 8 bars long. The reason it is called AABA is because the first, second, and fourth section are all melodically and harmonically very similar, and the third section is different from the rest.
AABA form, also known as 32-bar song form, consists of a twice-repeated strophe (AA), followed by a contrasting bridge (B), followed by another repetition of the initial strophe (A). AABA and strophic form were especially common in older pop music (1960s and earlier).
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The AABA form is associated with the hits from Broadway musicals in the 1930s and remained one of the most popular forms of popular music until the 1950s, when Rock ‘n’ Roll became popular. Each section (A or B) is typically 8 measures long.
