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  2. Song structure - Wikipedia

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    The solo section may take place over the chords from the verse, chorus, or bridge, or over a standard solo backing progression, such as the 12-bar blues progression. In some pop songs, the solo performer plays the same melodies that were performed by the lead singer, often with flourishes and embellishments, such as riffs, scale runs, and ...

  3. Montana (Frank Zappa song) - Wikipedia

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    The structure of "Montana" is intro–verses–chorus–solo–middle section–verses–outro. The lyrics, sung by Zappa in a humorous manner, talk about a person who decides to go to Montana to grow "a crop of dental floss," mounting a pony named "Mighty Little". He dreams of becoming a dental floss tycoon, by commercializing it.

  4. Lyric setting - Wikipedia

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    These suprasegmentals are utilized solely for special effect to enhance meaning on a specific word, phrase, or section, instead of to enhance the technical qualities of stressed and unstressed syllables. Using suprasegmentals in this way is another aspect of setting lyrics to create prosody and to preserve the natural emotion of the lyrical ...

  5. Solo (music) - Wikipedia

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    Trumpeter, bandleader and singer Louis Armstrong: as soloist.. In music, a solo (Italian for 'alone') is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung featuring a single performer, who may be performing completely alone or supported by an accompanying instrument such as a piano or organ, a continuo group (in Baroque music), or the rest of a choir, orchestra, band, or other ensemble.

  6. The End (The Doors song) - Wikipedia

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    During this period, Morrison brought vocal ideas into the instrumental solo section. Between the organ and guitar solos he approached the microphone and intoned two brief lines from the middle of the song "When the Music's Over": "Persian night, babe / See the light, babe." More strikingly, when the retransition motive began, he held the ...

  7. Breakdown (music) - Wikipedia

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    It is characterized by solo performance, improvisation, and a focus on rhythmic or pentatonic patterns. [ 1 ] A Union soldier in Charleston, South Carolina in 1865 recorded that young black people celebrating the end of the American Civil War with joyful singing in the streets "ended their songs with a 'shout' and a 'break-down'."

  8. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    In orchestral works, soli refers to a divided string section with only one player to a line. solo break A jazz term that instructs a lead player or rhythm section member to play an improvised solo cadenza for one or two measures (sometimes abbreviated as "break"), without any accompaniment. The solo part is often played in a rhythmically free ...

  9. Sweating Bullets (song) - Wikipedia

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    In the guitar solo section of the song, the camera filming the music video moves backwards showing the other Megadeth members David Ellefson, Nick Menza and Marty Friedman locked in cells as prisoners in a paranoia state with their instruments.