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Forms In Contemporary Gospel Music
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Repetition: Restatement of a musical
idea or section of a music.
·
Variation: Modification of a given musical idea after its
first emergence. It reduces boredom
effect of repetition by creating excitement vis-avis newness
·
Contrast: Conflict of a musical idea or
forward movement of a motif. It introduce freshness to ongoing musical
idea.
· Prelude: This in contemporary music is taken as whatever artistic
work preceding the main introduction of the music. Prelude could be in form of
vocal/verbal annunciations or introduction of the song, a special recitative
vocal section by a soloist and or a special musical part to be played by one or
few members of the musician before the main intro. A vocal prelude could be in
form of the following; Narration, Sermonette, Yearning, and Charge.
·
Intro: The part (mostly played by the
musician) to introduce the main music. The key and or (some special futures) of
the music should reflect in the intro, intro could be in different stages or
pattern.
·
Verse: Referred to as the body of the
music, it could be one or several. Verse could be taken by a soloist, duet,
trio, choir, instrument, and in form of call and response. Thematic idea of
music mostly reflect here.
·
Chorus: Literarily, it's the section of
the music to be taken by everybody, it could also mean the part that follows
the verse directly. There are different kinds of chorus.
·
Refrain: The term refrain is mostly used
in choral work to describe a part that constantly recurs at a particular time
for a fixed regular time span.
·
Interlude: This is an instrumental part
that recurs mostly in a strophic style, it is usually short and predictive.
·
Bridge: Special transitional part that
link two different part of a song, it is characterized by special rhythmic
mode, modulation, dynamics e.t.c. not
all music have bridges, most song in place of bridges have what we call Link or
Special Part.
·
Vamp: This is a special excerpt or small
section to be repeated severally in order to build climax mostly towards the
end of the music. Climax is achieved with various level of swap.
·
Coda: This represents the end section of
a musical work, music is expected to have built climax during coda section.
·
Reprise: when a particular part of a
music is taken a fresh when the song is already ended. For the sakes of
emphasis, reprises are ideal for lead singers to display dexterity.
·
Outro: Opposite of Intro: Usually the instrumental part played by all or
some of the musical instrument after the Vocal or the main song has ended. It
could be the last musical part of a song if there is no postlude.
·
Postlude: Just like the interlude, postlude is the part
taken mostly by the instrumentalists at the end of the main song, its optional.
It is characterized by rapid rolls and scaly moves.
1) MELODIC MOVEMENT/ PLACEMENT IN CONTEMPORARY
GOSPEL MUSIC
A good singer
should be informed and be prepared to sing any other given part on the spur of
the moment. One of the features of the post modern contemporary Gospel music is
the concept of melodic movement in which the melody of the song changes based
on the vocal range of the lead singer or the context of performance. To this
end, no part is meant to sing a fixed melodic line always. There are four
variables in which melody moves namely:
a) First Variable: when
a soprano singer is leading; soprano sing melody, Alto harmonise in
alto, Tenor harmonise in tenor. This is the standard part
arrangement.
b) Second Variable: When a tenor singer
is leading; The above arrangement
is suitable because an average tenor singer sings an octave lower of soprano range.
c) Third Variable: When an Alto Singer
is leading; Alto sings melody, Soprano harmonise in tenor, Tenor harmonise
in alto.
d) Fourth Variable:
Occur whenever a contra- alto singer or Counter Tenor singers are leading; Tenor takes melody, Alto
takes tenor harmony and Soprano takes high octave alto.
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