What about tunes like 'The Cumberland Reel', which has a 16 bar B part, and
16 bars moreover of a long melodic line?
Anyway, we shouldn't allow a frisson of inferiority to pass among us,
because of the sociologist's crack about '8 bar structures'. He could
equally have said that Miles Davis brought together a band to play tunes
with 8 bar structures (and just happened to record 'Kind of Blue' while they
were at it.) And speaking of blues....12 bars, but so much more. Tain't
the bones, Mr Sociologist, it's the meat that counts.
Dave Francis
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