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One of the best examples of the AABA form is the song "I Got Rhythm" and its chord progression: "Rhythm changes".
Tin Pan AlleyMost Tin Pan Alley songs consisted of a verse or "sectional verse", and a refrain or "sectional refrain", often in thirty-two-bar form. The sectional verse is often omitted from modern performances and thus the refrain is often the only section remembered and heard. Perhaps the most recognizable example, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", however, consists of a full AABA scheme and a reprise of two verses and an ending based on the bridge material. (Covach 2005, p.70) One example is "Down in Mexico Way", in which, "the A sections...are doubled in length, to sixteen bars - but this affects the overall scheme only marginally" (ibid)... Later rock and pop
The Brill Building and other songwriters, such as Lennon-McCartney, often used modified thirty-two-bar forms, often modifying the number of measures in individual or all sections. Examples include (ibid, p.70):
Compound AABA form is the combination of a AABA like bridge (B) that contrasts and prepares the return of a verse-chorus pair (A). The Police's "Every Breath You Take" (1983), features a thirty-two-bar section, a contrasting bridge, and then a repeat of the thirty-two-bar section, making a compound of ABA and AABA form. Other examples include:
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