page_title: Backe, backe Kuchen
section_title: Text and melody
hierarchical_section_title: Backe, backe Kuchen / Text and melody
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Backe, dt. Kinderlied, wahrscheinlich 19. Jh., Notenbeispiel mit einfachen Klavierakkorden, Akkordsymbolen und Text
context_page_description: Backe, backe Kuchen is a popular German language children's rhyme. The original was in Saxony and Thuringia with several textual versions from 1840.
context_section_description: The melody musically structures the text in the way of bar form. The framing lines follow a conventional four-bar period, where only the melodic variation in the postscript of the reprise (i.e. in the last two bars) enlivens the otherwise rather monotonous course. However, the symmetry of these run counter to the bars of the sung "middle part". This irregularity is common in folk songs when 'litany-like " prose texts are set to music. Familiar songs that use this effect are significantly stronger than that with a relatively simple three-bar song, examples like Backe, backe Kuchen include Der Bauer schickt den Jockel aus or the Christmas carol The Twelve Days of Christmas.
caption: About this sound„Backe, backe Kuchen“: Melodie und Text mit einfachen Begleitakkorden (help·info)
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