Talk:Song structure

message: This paragraph is extremely unclear. It says "compound AABA forms" but the link has no mentioning of what compounds mean. 
"Variations such as a1 and a2 can also be used." - I have no idea what this means.
AAA format - isn't this what's called a "strophic form"? I think it should have its own section. Here it's not explained properly at all.
Examples are provided for AABA form, but how is that exactly "a variation" on the basic structure?
ABA - I fail to see how is this different from the verse-chorus structure described above. The same goes for ABAB and ABABCAB  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.125.145.87 (talk) 20:56, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Variation on the basic structure" 

message: "Many popular songs, particularly from early in this century, are in a verse and a chorus (refrain) form. Most popular songs from the middle of the century consist only of a chorus."[1]  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marius63 (talk • contribs) 13:05, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I made a clarification to the first paragraph then realized the whole thing could use a good rewrite. The tone is not at all appropriate for an encyclopedia. Good Luck to you! 207.69.137.41 04:05, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What century? 

message: Chorus is currently explained in the lead section as one of the primary elements, but it doesn’t have its own section in the body. It makes me wonder, if I just look at the TOC, What about the chorus? There should be a Chorus section between Pre-chorus and Bridge; maybe move some material down from the lead. MJ (t • c) 01:44, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section for chorus 

message: It seems like the section describing the "middle eight" is misusing the term "bridge." From reading the rest of the article, it seems like they are actually referring to the pre-chorus. In either case, I think somebody should look into the terms used.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.36.94.35 (talk) 19:24, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle eight section 

message: This article, and the related article Refrain, mostly seem to talk of chorus and refrain as being the same thing. The Chorus section even links to "Main article: Refrain". There is a mention in the Talk of Refrain that the Chorus article was split and part of it was merged with Refrain. (Actually for some of this info I had to follow the link Talk:Refrain/Old history from Chorus but I could not actually find the history of that discussion.)
From elsewhere it seems that Chorus and Refrain are distinct concepts. For example http://musiced.about.com/od/othermusicgenres/p/partsofasong.htm and also the online course I am on at the moment treat chorus and refrain as different things (www.coursera.org - Songwriting from 1-3-2013 - note that I am putting this in as reference/information not advertising).
I suggest that Chorus and Refrain are treated as being distinct (though similar) concepts, with separate sections in this article, and separate articles of their own. FrankSier (talk) 23:26, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chorus / Refrain as different things 

message: A girl who had to move schools because she was getting bullied 71.28.225.92 (talk) 00:07, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the move