- Repetition (music) - Wikipedia
Repetition is a part and parcel of symmetry —and of establishing motifs and hooks You find a melodic or rhythmic figure that you like, and you repeat it throughout the course of the melody or song
- Repetition in Music: Why We Can’t Get Enough of It - Arcadia
When a sentence is repeated too many times, one stops paying attention to its meaning and perceives it as a sound sequence with a unique beat pattern and cadence
- Repeated Listening Increases the Liking for Music Regardless . . .
It makes intuitive sense that one will tend to dislike music that is beyond one's level of comprehension, or more formally, processing ability Likewise, it seems feasible that music which has a complexity level substantially below one's processing ability might be experienced as tedious, repetitive, and boring, and will thus be disliked
- Repetition and its Importance in Music - Beyond Music Theory
So, it is common practice in music to work with motifs and musical ideas and then repeat, expand, re-use and recycle them with variations Here is a video where I explore this concept by using musical examples:
- Repeats – Introduction to Music Theory and Rudiments
While the default is to play the repeated section two times total, when indicated properly, repeat signs can be used to repeat a section as many times as needed or desired
- Why We Love Repetition In Music - Bobby Owsinskis Music . . .
This is called “semantic satiation,” which is that moment when a phrase is overloaded through so much repetition that it slips out of the meaning-processing part of our brains
- Repeats and Other Musical Road Map Signs ‹ OpenCurriculum
Repeated notes, motifs, phrases, melodies, rhythms, chord progressions, and even entire repeated sections in the overall form, are all very crucial in helping the listener make sense of the music So good music is surprisingly repetitive!
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