Most pop standard and jazz ballads are built from a single, introductory verse ; usually around 16 bars in length, and ending on the dominant ; the chorus or refrain, usually it is 16 or 32 bars long, and in AABA form ( though other forms such as ABAC are not uncommon ).

Usually this will be the only anthem sung, such as at national sporting events, and it will be sung only in Welsh using the first stanza and chorus and refrain.

Gospel songs generally include a refrain ( or chorus ) and usually ( though not always ) a faster tempo than the hymns.

In modern poetry, the term is often equivalent with strophe ; in popular vocal music, a stanza is typically referred to as a " verse " ( distinct from the refrain, or " chorus ").

On another occasion, he explained: " the line length ... you'll notice that they're all built on bop — you might think of them as a bop refrain — chorus after chorus after chorus — the ideal being, say, Lester Young in Kansas City in 1938, blowing 72 choruses of ' The Man I Love ' until everyone in the hall was out of his head ..."

Usually the chorus or refrain technique is found.

A refrain ( from Vulgar Latin refringere, " to repeat ", and later from Old French refraindre ) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse ; the " chorus " of a song.

The refrain or chorus often sharply contrasts the verse melodically, rhythmically, and harmonically, and assumes a higher level of dynamics and activity, often with added instrumentation.

" Many popular songs, particularly from early in this century, are in a verse and a chorus ( refrain ) form.

A pop chorus is not the same as a refrain.

A writer on pop-song theory, Davis opines that a refrain musically and lyrically resolves a verse and therefore ends it, whereas a chorus begins a distinctively new music section of at least eight bars.

* " Indian Reservation ( The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian )", a song by Paul Revere & the Raiders, known for its chorus refrain of " Cherokee People "

The lyrics were altered slightly from the live version, as the refrain of " Go then, to Adam & the Ants, they will make you cum in your pants " before the chorus was deemed too offensive for the largely young readers of Flexipop.

Now drunk, the portraits of his ancestors appear to awaken, singing a song reminding him of his duties, a refrain of noblesse oblige forming the chorus.

A chorus ( often with its own refrain ) may be added to the stanzas as in The Rattlin ' Bog:

The chorus, or refrain, uses five of the song's seven chord set, structured with the melody in a way that shifts the key from B-minor to its relative major of D:

*" November Rain " is referenced twice in the chorus of the song " On the Radio " by Regina Spektor: " On the radio / We heard November Rain / The solo's real long / But it's a pretty song " and " And on the radio / You hear November Rain / That solo's awful long / But it's a good refrain "

The ritornello, or the ‘ tutti ’ section, functions as a refrain or chorus while the solo sections may expand upon the short melodic lines of the tutti.

It uses the sequence B – D – E – A – A ♯ as its chord progression during the refrain, the chorus, and the bridge, and F ♯– G ♯ m – E – B for the verses.

One particularly famous cariso dates to 1848, and documents the emancipation of the slaves ; the first segment is the refrain, sung by a chorus, which is followed by a verse performed by a soloist singer:

The main tune is called the refrain or chorus.

The chorus ( or " refrain ") usually consists of a melodic and lyrical phrase which is repeated.

" Many popular songs, particularly from early in this century, are in a verse and a chorus ( refrain ) form.

" They asked Rock to take out the " I'm going platinum " line on the title track's chorus but he refused.

All I'm saying is there are three things, that are like so important to the whole world that I don't happen to find much importance in, whether it's fucking, or whether it's playing golf, because of that, I feel ... ( chorus )".

Pinker gives the example of a student " stubbornly " mishearing the chorus to I'm Your Venus as " I'm Your Penis ," and being surprised that the song was allowed on the radio.

Although Orbison recorded and wrote standard structure songs before " Only the Lonely ", he claimed never to have learned how to write them: " I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say ' This is the way you do it ,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way .... So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes ... But that's always after the fact — as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me.

The chorus of the ( mostly Welsh ) song International Velvet declares " Every day when I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh.

They make way for Astaire who strides confidently to the front of the stage and delivers the song, which features the famous line: " I'm stepping out, my dear, to breathe an atmosphere that simply reeks with class ," trading the occasional tap barrage with the chorus as he sings. The dance begins with Astaire and chorus moving in step.

The chorus of the song includes the lyrics, " For every day I'm workin ' on the Illinois River, get a half a day off with pay.

Prior to the album's release, Slipknot gave away " Heretic Song ", titled " The Heretic Anthem " on the album, free on their website and was limited to a quantity of 666 copies to coincide with the song's chorus ; " If you're 555, then I'm 666.

* Herman's Hermits, led by Peter Noone, also incorporated music hall into their repertoire, scoring a major hit with their cover of the Harry Champion music hall standard I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am in 1965 ( but Noone's version included only the chorus, not the many verses of the original ).

Rap group, L. A. M. B, have a song entitled " I'm Your Boyfriend Now, Nancy ", based on Freddy Krueger, which samples Freddy's infamous quote for the song's chorus.

Shostakovich told Yavorsky confidentially, " I'm composing the chorus with great difficulty.

However, it was necessary to augment Asher's lyrics with Mike Love's, which include the opening line (" I, I love the colorful clothes she wears ,") the chorus couplet (" I'm pickin ' up good vibrations / She's givin ' me the excitations ") and the two bridges ( the " I don't know where but she sends me there " section, and the " Gotta keep those lovin '- good vibrations happenin ' with her " section.

" I'm Afraid of Americans " originally appeared as a rough mix on the soundtrack to the film Showgirls ( in which the chorus is " I'm afraid of the animals " instead of the later " I'm afraid of Americans ") and was subsequently remade for Earthling.

The chorus began " I'm on my way to Yakima.

For the song's vocals, Beck attempted to emulate the rapping style of Public Enemy's Chuck D. According to Beck, the line that became the song's chorus originated because " When played it back, I thought, ' Man, I'm the worst rapper in the world, I'm just a loser.

The song's chorus, in which Beck sings the lines " Soy un perdedor / I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

The song then goes onto the third verse followed by a final chorus which is treated as the outro with the words, " I'm on a plain / I can't complain " being repeated multiple times until all instruments and main vocals start fading out until the last thing that's heard is a vocal harmony Ooooing.

Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

Then there was a chorus of wild barking and baying.

It was greeted with a chorus of boos by 500 women in Trenton Monday at a forum of the State Federation of Women's Clubs.

So the audience last night was all ears and eyes just after Act 2, got a rousing opening chorus, `` Where's Charley??

The entrance of the Stadtisches Gesangverein ( Bonn's civic chorus ) was worth all the waiting, however, as the young Rhenish voices finally brought the music to life.

She chose an a cappella arrangement that was close to Edwin Othello Excell's, accompanied by a chorus of amateur singers who were friends of hers.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

When Thespis stepped out from the chorus, he spoke as if he was the character ( for example, " I am Dionysus.

Sacred music was not a high priority for the composer during this stage of his career, but he did compose an Alleluia for chorus and orchestra in 1774, perhaps for his own wedding, or in thanksgiving for it.

By this time Naples seems to have become tired of his music ; the Romans, however, appreciated it better, and it was at the Teatro Capranica in Rome that he produced some of his finest operas ( Telemaco, 1718 ; Marco Attilio Regolò, 1719 ; La Griselda, 1721 ), as well as some noble specimens of church music, including a mass for chorus and orchestra, composed in honor of Saint Cecilia for Cardinal Acquaviva in 1721.

He was in the chorus and played the tenor saxophone, winning first chair in the state band's saxophone section.

The current version was composed by Ramón Carnicer, with words by Eusebio Lillo, and has six parts plus the chorus.

In the celebrations marking the return of democracy in March 1990 at Santiago's Estadio Nacional de Chile, the anthem was played in its present melody, raised to F Major ( the Royal Musical Official Version of the anthem ) which is the original melody of the second anthem by Carnicer, but using the 1847 lyrics as text, save for the original chorus.

The identity of the threesome is neatly underscored by a patriotic account of their roles during Greece's great victory over Persia at the Battle of SalamisAeschylus fought there, Sophocles was just old enough to celebrate the victory in a boys ' chorus and Euripides was born on the very day of the battle.

The language was spoken and sung verse, the performance area included a circular floor or orchestra where the chorus could dance, a space for actors ( three speaking actors in Euripides's time ), a backdrop or skene and some special effects: an ekkyklema ( used to bring the skene's ' indoors ' outdoors ) and a mechane ( used to lift actors in the air, as in deus ex machina ).

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

The song was written in 1977, but existed only as a demo recording of the chorus.

It was Prince who changed the title to Follies ; he was " intrigued by the psychology of a reunion of old chorus dancers and loved the play on the word ' follies '".

The absence of a similar precaution in construction of his Mosè in Egitto led to disaster in the scene depicting the passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea, when the defects in stage contrivance always raised a laugh, so that the composer was at length compelled to introduce the chorus " Dal tuo stellato soglio " to divert attention from the dividing waves.

His first wife was chorus girl Ruth Johnson.