What Is The Form Of George Benson's Song 'Turn Your Love Around'?

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I have chosen the melody 2 and arranged it in the style of George Benson’s song “Turn Your Love Around”.
In my previous assessment I took the notes on the form of “Turn Your Love Around” and I realised that the song is very repetitive. I have scored and recorded only two verses, so it seems that the length of the song is just 2 minutes and 23 seconds. However, there is a room for adding one or two more verses, if only a vocalist who would like to perform the song would have the additional lyrics. In this case, the instrumentalists would need to repeat the verse and the chorus after the bar 48 (before the outro

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