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  2. Repetition (music) - Wikipedia

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    Repetition is important in music, where sounds or sequences are often repeated. It may be called restatement , such as the restatement of a theme . While it plays a role in all music, with noise and musical tones lying along a spectrum from irregular to periodic sounds, it is especially prominent in specific styles.

  3. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    RepetitionRepetition often uses word associations to express ideas and emotions indirectly, emphasizing a point, confirming an idea, or describing a notion. Rhyme–Rhyme uses repeating patterns to bring out rhythm or musicality in poems. It is a repetition of similar sounds occurring in lines in a poem which gives the poem a symmetric quality.

  4. Rhyme - Wikipedia

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    Broken rhyme is a type of enjambement producing a rhyme by dividing a word at the line break of a poem to make a rhyme with the end word of another line. Cross rhyme matches a sound or sounds at the end of a line with the same sound or sounds in the middle of the following (or preceding) line. [8] A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyming lines ...

  5. Musical form - Wikipedia

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    In music, form refers to the structure of a musical composition or performance.In his book, Worlds of Music, Jeff Todd Titon suggests that a number of organizational elements may determine the formal structure of a piece of music, such as "the arrangement of musical units of rhythm, melody, and/or harmony that show repetition or variation, the arrangement of the instruments (as in the order of ...

  6. Rhythm - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford English Dictionary defines rhythm as "The measured flow of words or phrases in verse, forming various patterns of sound as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables in a metrical foot or line; an instance of this". [3] Rhythm is related to and distinguished from pulse, meter, and beats:

  7. Sequence (music) - Wikipedia

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    A false sequence is a literal repetition of the beginning of a figure and stating the rest in sequence: [1] J.S. Bach Prelude from Cello Suite in G J.S. Bach Prelude from Cello Suite in G, BWV 1007 A modulating sequence is a sequence that leads from one tonal center to the next, with each segment technically being in a different key in some ...

  8. Call and response (music) - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, they can take form as commentary to a statement, an answer to a question or repetition of a phrase following or slightly overlapping the initial speaker(s). [2] It corresponds to the call and response pattern in human communication and is found as a basic element of musical form, such as the verse-chorus form, in many traditions.

  9. Repetitive song - Wikipedia

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    The Guinness Book Of Records cites one washer song that has been sung for decades by people washing clothes, though presumably not all through the night. Self referential songs refer to themselves like The Song That Doesn't End and may even recursively quote their own lyrics, for example " I Know a Song that will Get on Your Nerves " where each ...