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Trevor Herbert

That's fine. I should say it's a 16-bar tune which is one of the most common sort of structures for um, for example 4 melody, is made up really of four phrases of four bars each, a sort of 'A A B A'...

George Fenton

Yeah, absolutely – this is really the simplest – I think the simplest – structurally the simplest type of melody one could write which as you say is one phrase basically a repeated phrase with a slight variation, then a development of that phrase which becomes like a 'B'... yes a contrasting phrase, and then returning to a version of the original phrase to round it off.

Trevor Herbert

You can tell the shape from the melody then, now let's hear it with the harmonies.