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Listening for form in popular music
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This figure is another representation of the form of ‘Midnight Special’. It is a table with 20 rows and four columns. The columns are labelled ‘Track time’, ‘Section’, ‘Subsection’, and ‘Part of song’. Under the columns ‘Track time’, ‘Subsection’ and ‘Part of song’, the first row contains the text ‘00:00, (lower-case) b prime, Instrumental introduction (chorus-based)’ The second row has ‘00:11, (lower-case) b, Chorus 1’. The third row has ‘00:21, (lower-case) a, Verse 1’. The fourth row has ‘00:40, (lower-case) b, Chorus 2’. The fifth row has ‘00:50, (lower-case) b prime, Instrumental interlude (chorus-based)’. The sixth row has ‘01:01, (lower-case) a, Verse 2’. The seventh row has ‘01:20, (lower-case) b, Chorus 3’. The eighth row has ‘01:29, (lower-case) b prime, Instrumental interlude (chorus-based)’. The ninth row has ‘01:41, (lower-case) a, Verse 3’. The tenth row has ‘01:59, (lower-case) b, Chorus 4’. The eleventh row has ‘02:09, (lower-case) b prime, Instrumental interlude (chorus-based)’. The twelfth row has ‘02:20, (lower-case) a, Verse 4’. The thirteenth row has ‘02:39, (lower-case) b, Chorus 5’. The fourteenth row has ‘02:49, (lower-case) b prime, Instrumental interlude (chorus-based)’. The fifteenth row has ‘03:00, (lower-case) b, Chorus 6’. The sixteenth row has ‘03:10, (lower-case) a, Verse 5’. The seventeenth row has ‘03:29, (lower-case) b, Chorus 7’. The eighteenth row has ‘03:39, (lower-case) b prime, Instrumental interlude (chorus-based)’. The nineteenth row has ‘03:49, (lower-case) b, Chorus 8’. The twentieth row has ‘04:00, Instrumental conclusion’. Rows one and two are coloured grey and the ‘Section’ column contains the text ‘(upper-case) I (intro)’. Rows three to five are shaded light blue and the ‘Section’ column contains the text ‘(upper-case) A’. Rows six to eight are shaded light blue and the ‘Section’ column contains the text ‘(upper-case) A’. Rows nine to eleven are coloured light blue and the ‘Section’ column contains the text ‘(upper-case) A’. Rows twelve to fifteen are shaded darker blue and the ‘Section’ column contains the text ‘(upper-case) A prime’. Rows sixteen to nineteen are also coloured darker blue and the ‘Section’ column contains the text ‘(upper-case) A prime’. Row twenty is coloured grey and the ‘Section’ column contains the text ‘C (coda)’.
Figure 13 ‘Midnight Special’, form, second version, employing alphabetic designations

 15 Strategies for representing form