Barform

Bar form is since the 19th century for the shape of medieval canzone stanza. Originally designated Bar in the parlance of Meistersinger at least dreistrophiges master song. Due to a misleading tradition by Johann Christoph Wagenseil referred Richard Wagner in his Meistersinger, the term bar not the whole song, but a single stanza, which caused the change from the historically correct to the present-day importance as strophic form.

In a further generalization of the term refers to those construction today of any musical context, which can be described by the A -A-B scheme. In the German melody so understood bar form plays a prominent role.

The form and its variants

A Barstrophe ( Form scheme AAB ) is composed of the

  • Broken song, consisting of (also called the decade of ) the studs (A)
  • And the metric and musically same counter- tunnels (also called building ).

Many ancient and modern hymns (in the sense of hymn ) primarily based on the melody of a verse after the bar form with the schema

Example: Wake up, voice is calling

The text is usually free of repetitions. Almost always true for the number of clocks A ≤ B ≤ A.

The bar form differs from the similarly constructed musical set in that tunnel and counter studs are not only similar, but identical, and that the last phrase always ends on the tonic.

Gegenbarform

The Gegenbarform carries the repeated part at the end:

Reprisenbarform

The Reprisenbarform repeated as final the tunnels in whole or in part as a reprise:

Use in the Blues

The melodic and lyrical structure of a 12 - bar blues mostly resembles the bar form:

In contrast to the original bar form is here, however, the " swan song " as long as a " tunnel ".

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