Incomplete repetition

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Incomplete repetition is a musical form featuring two large sections, the second being a partial or incomplete re-presentation or repetition of the first.[1]

This form is used throughout the traditional Plains-Pueblo

melodic contour.[1]

Examples of AABC form include Tadd Dameron's "Lady Bird".[2]

Sources

  1. ^ a b Nettl, Bruno (1956). Music in Primitive Culture, [page needed]. Harvard University Press.
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