Pop Song Comparison

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This assignment include a comparison between a folk song and a pop song, both of them are part of beautiful and attractive music. From this assignment I feel like become closer to both of these two styles. First, when I listen to a folk song, I feel like listening a story. A story from long ago, with a group of people. The "group" could be as particular as a family, or a nation. Then, when I listen to a pop song, I feel more emotion in it than the history.
My folk song is “Czechoslovakia Hey Ho, Hey Ho” one flat, started with D5 and ended with D4, this is a D minor scale song. This song have 6 phases, and I marked the first and third one as “A”, the second, fourth, and sixth one as “B”. The fifth phase have the same beats with “A” but different tone, so we can call it “A’”. Repetition occur a lot in this song. And they are also variation
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The beats of the song is four four, means a quarter note is a beat and there are four beats each measure. I also did not find any ritardando, accelerando, crescendo or other marks in this music so I think the songster want us fellow the context and make it as we want.
For the folk song, you can find a number of repeat mimetic words such as “hey”, “ho”. The repetition lyric also include “jin-gle, jan-gle” in the back of this music. The end of every sentences have rhyme words including “sound” and “a-round”; “tam-bour-ine-o”, “town-o” and “ho”.
For the pop song, you can find a number of repeat words such as “good night”, there also have the mimetic words “mm”, like mother sing a cradlesong. The end of every sentences have rhyme words including “night”, “light” and “tight”.
Just like I said, folk song comprises the stories and culture of a particular group of people. The history we felt in the song are the lasting value of my folk song. And the advantage of pop song is the simpleness, is make the pop song popular and everyone can feel love with the

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