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...artificial result of wartime circumstances; and when peace in 1815 was followed by economic down-turns in the late 1810s, it felt like these fears were being justified. However, this was followed by economic recovery in the early 1820s; and it was at this point that contemporaries were able to look back at the industrial progress of the previous fifty years and see it as...

...intelligibly. As you can probably imagine, there is a vast assortment of musical forms that a composer or songwriter can choose from – a 12-bar blues, a classical ternary form (section A – section B – return of section A), a standard verse-refrain structure of a pop song, an Indian raga – but it all depends, of course, on what type of music musicians are creating...