Pont (musique)

In music, especially Western popular music, a bridge is a contrasting section that prepares for the return of the original material section. In a piece in which the original material or melody is referred to as the "A" section, the bridge may be the third eight-bar phrase in a thirty-two-bar form (the B in AABA), or may be used more loosely in verse-chorus form, or, in a compound AABA form, used as a contrast to a full AABA section. The bridge is often used to contrast with and prepare for the return of the verse and the chorus. "The b section of the popular song chorus is often called the bridge or release." The term comes from a German word for bridge, Steg, used by the Meistersingers of the 15th to the 18th century to describe a transitional section in medieval bar form. The German term became widely known in 1920s Germany through musicologist Alfred Lorenz and his exhaustive studies of Richard Wagner's adaptations of bar form in his popular 19th-century neo-medieval operas. The term entered the English lexicon in the 1930s—translated as bridge—via composers fleeing Nazi Germany who, working in Hollywood and on Broadway, used the term to describe similar transitional sections in the American popular music they were writing. Bridges are also common in classical music, and are known as a specific Sequence form—also known as transitions. Formally called a bridge-passage, they delineate separate sections of an extended work, or smooth what would otherwise be an abrupt modulation, such as the transition between the two themes of a sonata form. In the latter context, this transition between two musical subjects is often referred to as the "transition theme"; indeed, in later Romantic symphonies such as Dvořák's New World Symphony or César Franck's Symphony in D minor, the transition theme becomes almost a third subject in itself. The latter work also provides several good examples of a short bridge to smooth a modulation. Instead of simply repeating the whole exposition in the original key, as would be done in a symphony of the classical period, Franck repeats the first subject a minor third higher in F minor.

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Musique populaire

La musique populaire désigne les genres de musique tirant leur origine et trouvant leur public dans les milieux populaires. Elle se développe dans un milieu urbain et industrialisé et est souvent associée à l'histoire de la révolution industrielle et technologique ayant amené la technique phonographique, ainsi qu'à l'histoire de la mondialisation. Le terme est souvent utilisé comme un comparatif par certains défenseurs de la musique savante, qui perçoivent la musique populaire comme un produit commercial et pointent ses faiblesses esthétiques, qu'ils jugent en comparaison de la musique classique européenne.

Verse–chorus form

Verse–chorus form is a musical form going back to the 1840s, in such songs as "Oh! Susanna", "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze", and many others. It became passé in the early 1900s, with advent of the AABA (with verse) form in the Tin Pan Alley days. It became commonly used in blues and rock and roll in the 1950s, and predominant in rock music since the 1960s. In contrast to 32-bar form, which is focused on the refrain (contrasted and prepared by the B section), in verse–chorus form the chorus is highlighted (prepared and contrasted with the verse).

Forme AABA

Une forme AABA est une forme musicale, fréquente dans la chanson, le gospel ou le jazz, construite avec 2 sections différentes : une section A est répétée (AA) avec la même mélodie mais des paroles différentes ; elle est suivie d'une section B souvent appelée « pont » ou « bridge », amenant une dynamique et des harmonies différentes ; la forme se termine par le retour d'une section A. Traditionnellement les sections ont une longueur identique, généralement 8 mesures, mais toute autre configuration est possible.