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Thirty-two-bar song. Sondheim gives this definition: a generic term for a song
built in four stanzas of equivalent length, the most common being eight measures.
They are presented in a sequential form of AABA or ABAB, where A and B each
signify a stanza and there is sometimes a slight variation in the last one to bring the
song to a conclusion. The A section is often referred to as the refrain, the B section
as the release. Examples of AABA would be OlMan River and Send in the Clowns;
examples of ABAB would be White Christmas and Anchors Aweigh. FTH 379
Sondheim scholar Dominic Symonds describes the form as either AABA or ABAC.
In a typical AABA song the first eight bars establish a melodic and harmonic
pattern, the second eight vary that pattern, the third eight present a response with a
second subject [tune] and then the main pattern is reprised in a final eight-bar
section resolving to the tonic. Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies, 41.
Release also called third eight, or bridge. The B section of an AABA song form; a
musical, lyrical, rhythmical departure from the A. According to musicologist Stephen
Banfield, A release should be just what its name denotes, a B passage of emotional
comfort, a broadening vision after the repeated rhetorical proposition of the A
section, with melodic height (it is habitually at the top of the tessitura) and
harmonic depth (often a modulatory sequence based on a cycle of fifths). Banfield,
331
Producer responsible for budget and fund raising but also according to
Sondheims description, a person who can make and effect executive decisions
about casting and stage management and set and costume design, supervise the
advertising and arrange the booking and cope with the unionsall the grubby
chores a producer has to attend to, and attend to well. FTH 29
Pastiche. Many of the songs in Follies are pastiches, fond imitations of an older
generation of composers and lyricsts. Sondheim distinguishes pastiche songs from
parodies or satires, where the intent is to comment on or ridicule the work or style
being imitated. FTH 200