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Covach's interest in form in rock music derives from fascination and prag- matism. Since many styles of popular music do not include music notation except perhaps after the fact, in the form of a transcription , rock perform- ers need to organize musical sections of any given song conceptually in order to keep the song and the arrangement fixed in memory.

Thus, in the present essay, Covach provides a comprehensive introduction to various forms that rock musicians have used over the past five decades. Applying technical terms to familiar rock forms, Covach's survey details what forms are common to much rock music, as well as how formal structure articulates and distinguishes rock as a stylistic category.

From the swing-influenced early rock and roll of Bill Haley and the Comets through the bouncy two-minute singles of the early Beatles and the Supremes to the ambitious epics such as Pink Floyd's The Wall, rock music has encompassed both the simple and the complex, the serious and the frivolous, the emotionally direct and the technologically mediated.

This essay will provide an introduction to the types of formal structures that can be found in rock music. Considering the wide range of music that could be classified as rock, this survey will provide only a glimpse of some typical structural fea- tures of the repertory.

Despite such broad stylistic diversity, however, there are a number of formal types that return frequently in the repertory, crossing stylistic and historical boundaries in sometimes predictable-but also in sometimes surprising-ways. This essay will identify some of the most common formal schemes to be found in rock music.

Most of the essays denote register by middle C as C 4. The analysis of rock music has received increasing attention among theorists in recent years. Typically the analyst determines the meter of the song, analyzes the chord progressions, and charts the number of measures in a section, IV IV IV v IV v considering phrases within that section where applicable. These sections then add up to Question Question again Answer articulate the form of the song, which will often fall into one of the general types that will be explained below.

In considering form in rock as in many other types of song , it is Example 6. The twelve-bar blues Muddy Waters, "Train Fare Blues" [ also helpful to separate out harmonic concerns from those regarding the lyrics, at least provisionally. As will be shown, for instance, the pacing and repetition of harmonic ma- In terms of organizational patterns, one clear model for much rock and roll-since terials need not always align with that of the lyrics: lyrics can be repeated over different the s and up to the present day-is the twelve-bar blues.

This pattern derives mostly sets of chord progressions, and the same progression can support different lyrics. It is thus [rom the kinds of blues played by blues and jazz bands in the years before the Second helpful to remain mindful of the dialectical tension that can arise between these dimen- World War; while solo blues artists were sometimes much freer in terms of phrasing and sions of the musical fabric, as such relationships can be useful in making important for- meter, musicians playing together in a group setting were able to play easily by simply mal distinctions as will be seen below.

Organizational schemes in the melodic, timbral, following this twelve-bar scheme. Good examples of this pattern may be found in tracks textural, and rhythmic dimensions frequently reinforce those found in the harmonic and such as Muddy Waters's "Train Fare Blues" , Howlin' Wolfs "Evil" , and lyric dimensions of a song, though detailed analysis will often reveal distinct schemes that many others.

The common strategy of building up an arrange- The pattern is made up of three phases, each four measures in length see example ment by adding new layers to the texture as a song progresses, for instance, is one ex- 6. The first phrase prolongs the tonic harmony. The second phrase moves to the sub- ample of such a scheme. The form of a song is thus only one aspect of its structure. The lyrics and For the purposes of this broad introductory survey, consideration will be limited to melody from the first phrase are often though not always repeated in the second, mak- the twelve-bar blues as an organizational pattern and to several formal types: AABA, con- ing the second phrase a contrasting restatement of the first.

The third phrase moves from trasting and simple verse-chorus, simple verse, and compound forms. A wide range for- dominant harmony through a passing subdominant harmony to tonic, while offering con- mal variation in rock music can be understood in terms of these basic schemes, and while trasting lyrics and melodic material.

The musical effect of these three phrases can be un- these schemes cannot account for all rock, they offer a solid foundation for the formal derstood as analogous to posing a question, reposing the same question, and then pro- analysis of much rock music.

This essay should be studied with the recordings of the viding an answer, and this scheme serves to unify the three phrases into a single twelve-bar songs discussed below readily at hand. The examples provided for discussion are well- unit that then can be repeated as many times as the musicians see fit.

Improvised solos ' known songs in the style-all of them are hit records that are likely to be both familiar tend to respect this question-question-answer scheme as well, frequently withholding the and easily accessible to most readers who listen to rock music.

In general, earlier songs strongest melodically cadential material for the conclusion of the third phrase. A formal diagram of Turner's version of "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" can be found in example 6. In the great rush toward providing music for the craze created by through the twelve-bar blues in the key of Eb. This song follows the practice of repeat- this new youth-oriented musical style, many white acts re-recorded songs that had be- ing the lyrics to the first phrase in the second, with the third phrase offering the comple- come hits for black artists on the rhythm and blues charts.

These "cover" versions were tion of the idea that began in the first two. The song differs somewhat from traditional in many cases hardly different from the originals, though frequently lyrics were changed blues by providing a chorus the catchy "shake, rattle, and roll" in which the lyrics re- to remove references that white middle-class listeners might find offensive.

As these cover main constant each time it sounds. This verse-chorus scheme based on the twelve-bar versions climbed the pop charts, original rhythm and blues recordings of other songs also blues can be found in many other early rock and roll hits, including Bill Haley and the charted, crossing over from the rhythm and blues charts to the pop ones.

Goode," though and covers make up much of the original rock and roll of the mid s. A sue- 3. The formal diagrams provided in this study provide both measure counts and CD tiin. Styl- should be understood as approximate, since some deviations can occur between re-released versions of the istic Crossover in Lates American Progressive Rock," in Expression in Pop-Rock Music, These sections then add up to Question ! Question again ! Answer ! The twelve-bar blues Muddy Waters, '"Train Fare Blues" [] also helpful to separate out harmonic concerns from those regarding the lyrics, at least provisionally.

It is thus from the kinds of blues played by blues and jazz bands in the years before the Second helpful to remain mindful of the dialectical tension that can arise between these dimen- World War; while solo blues artists were sometimes much freer in terms of phrasing and sions of the musical fabric, as such relationships can be useful in making important for- meter, musicians playing together in a group setting were able to play easily by simply mal distinctions as will be seen below.

Good examples of this pattern may be found in tracks textural, and rhythmic dimensions frequently reinforce those found in the harmonic and such as Muddy Waters's ''Train Fare Blues" , Howlin' Wolfs "Evil" , and lyric dimensions of a song, though detailed analysis will often reveal distinct schemes that many others. The formal diagrams provided in this study provide both measure counts and CD tiinings.

Reached no. Discussion below will of overall form, this scheme only requires that the twelve-bar or eight- or sixteen-bar focus on larger formal issues concerning these songs. For present purposes, it is enough pattern be repeated, determining little about the specific larger form of a song.

Rock mu- to point out that despite a certain amount of variation in the handling of the lyrics and sic does operate according to a number of larger formal designs, however, and one fre- melodic material, a formal scheme consisting of repetitions of the twelve-bar harmonic quently employed formal scheme in rock music is the AABA pattern.

While this form pattern made up of three four-bar phrases remains constant among all these tracks. Example 6. In this case, the first phrase is consis- found among Tin Pan Alley pop songs, the formal design shown in example 6. This second phrase can be seen of the most common. Professor Covach also maintains an active career as a performing and recording musician.

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