Listening for form in popular music
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Discover the art of organizing music in time with this free course on form in popular music. Learn about specialist terms, alphabetic designations, and visual diagrams used to communicate form. Explore how form and lyrics collaborate to create meaning in songs. Enroll now!
This free course, Listening for form in popular music, explores form, or how music is organised in time. It looks at three strategies for communicating form – through the use of specialist terms (such as ‘chorus’ and ‘bridge’), alphabetic designations (for example AABA), and visual diagrams. It also considers how the form of a song works with its lyrics to create meaning.This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A234 Understanding music.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Perceive common elements of form in Western popular song (including folksong and the jazz standard) in pieces including ‘Suspicious Minds’, ‘Midnight Special’ and ‘It’s Only a Paper Moon’
Understand three methods for communicating information about form: specialist terms, alphabetic designations, and visual representations
Recognise how form and lyrics work together to convey meaning.
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