The Billboard Guide to Writing and Producing Songs that Sell by Eric Beall

Author:Eric Beall [Beall, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-87518-1
Publisher: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Published: 2009-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Prototype: Creating a Form

Just as the most cutting-edge film script is built on a three-act dramatic structure derived from the ancient Greeks, most song forms have their roots in older styles of music. Church hymns, English folk songs, African “call and response” chants, and the cowboy songs of the American West were all early influences in the development of American popular song structure. These old forms were condensed and combined to meet the needs of vaudeville and Broadway theater, the dance bands of the swing era, and the changing tastes of radio and television broadcast audiences, until finally settling into the forms most familiar today.

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