#ABRIDGE SYNONYM FULL#

The term entered the English lexicon in the 1930s-translated as bridge-via composers fleeing Nazi Germany who, working in Hollywood and on Broadway, used the term to describe similar transitional sections in the American popular music they were writing.īridge in J. The German term became widely known in 1920s Germany through musicologist Alfred Lorenz and his exhaustive studies of Richard Wagner's adaptations of bar form in his popular 19th-century neo-medieval operas. The term comes from a German word for bridge, Steg, used by the Meistersingers of the 15th to the 18th century to describe a transitional section in medieval bar form.

'The b section of the popular song chorus is often called the bridge or release.' Etymology The bridge is often used to contrast with and prepare for the return of the verse and the chorus.

#ABRIDGE SYNONYM FULL#

In a piece in which the original material or melody is referred to as the 'A' section, the bridge may be the third eight- bar phrase in a thirty-two-bar form (the B in AABA), or may be used more loosely in verse-chorus form, or, in a compound AABA form, used as a contrast to a full AABA section. In music, especially Western popular music, a bridge is a contrasting section that prepares for the return of the original material section. The III 7-VI 7-II 7-V 7 (or V 7/V/V/V–V 7/V/V–V 7/V–V 7) leads back to C major (I) but is itself indefinite in key. The ragtime progression (E 7-A 7-D 7-G 7) often appears in the bridge of jazz standards.

Abridge synonym