LimerickSentencesInJazzSong
PresentedbyMichealSebulsky
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ThreeTypesofLimerickSentences
ExamplesofLimerickSentences
Whatisalimericksentence?
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TheSingleLimerick–OnePairofRhymingLyrics
Line1–(A)
Line2–(A)
Line3–(B)
Line4–(C)
Line5–(D)
Limericksentencesare
classifiedbytheirrhyming
lyricpairs.
Thesinglelimerick
sentencecontainsone
rhymingpair.
TheDoubleLimerick–TwoPairsofRhymingLyrics
Line1–(A)
Line2–(A)
Line3–(B)
Line4–(B)
Line5–(C)
Thedoublelimerick
sentencecontainstwo
rhymingpairs.
TheTripleLimerick–TwoRhymingPairsandaReturn
Thetriplelimericksentence
containsthesamerhyming
schemeasthepoeAc
limerick.
Line1–(A)
Line2–(A)
Line3–(B)
Line4–(B)
Line5–(A)
Whatisalimerick?
“ICan’tGetStarted”
Thelimerickisafive-linepoem.Itsformisgeneratedthroughaspecificrhymingstructure.
“ICan’tGetStarted”waswrisenbyVernonDukeandIraGershwinin1935.
TheLimerickForm
Line1–(A)–8to9syllables
Line2–(A)–8to9syllables
Line3–(B)–5to6syllables
Line4–(B)–5to6syllables
Line5–(A)–8to9syllables
ALimerickbyOgdenNash
Awonderfulbirdisthepelican,
Hisbillcanholdmorethanhisbeli-can
Hecantakeinhisbeak
Foodenoughforaweek
ButdamnedifIseehowtheheli-can!
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Whatisasentence?
Thesentenceisafundamentalmusicalphraseconstruct.
ThesentenceiscomprisedofthreesecAons–thepresentaAon(dividedinto
twobasicideas),theconAnuaAonandthecadence.
MichealSebulsky
UniversityofColorado-Boulder
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“Bewitched(BotheredandBewildered)”
“Bewitched(BotheredandBewildered”waswrisenbyRichardRodgersand
LorenzHartandpublishedin1941.
Belowisanexampleofatriplelimericksentencetakenfromthesong’schorus.
Whatisthelimericksentence?
Thelimericksentenceisamusicalphrasethatcontainsboththeelementsof
themusicalsentenceandlyricsthatalignwiththepoeAclimerick.
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Belowisanexampleofadoublelimericksentencetakenfromthesong’schorus.
ThisposterpresentaAonsummarizesmaterialsthatareapartofMicheal’sthesis,
whichtreatsmusicalsentencestructure.Michealseekstofindcommonground
betweenthemanydiffering,contradictorysentencedefiniAonsthathavebeen
offeredsince1998,theyearthatWilliamCaplinpublishedhiswidelyaccepted
sentencedefiniAoninhisbookClassicalForm.Micheal’sworkidenAfiescommon
sentenceidiosyncrasiesandnewsentencesub-types,suchasthelimericksentence.
HisresearchfocusesspecificallyonsentencesfoundinthemusicofJohannes
Brahms,jazz,andpopularmusic.
MoreExamplesofLimerickSentences
Belowaresomeotherexamplesoflimericksentencesinjazzsongs
“JustFriends”–JohnKlennerandSamM.Lewis
“Unforgesable”–IrvingGordon
“LadyBird”–TaddDameron(lyricsbyAlyssaAllgood,2015)
“Let’sFallinLove”–HaroldArlenandTedKoehler
“LongAgoandFarAway”–JeromeKernandIraGershwin
References
1.FormoreaboutthepoeAclimerick,see
A.N.Wilkins,MortalTasteLimericks(NewYork:ExposiAonPress,1965),pg.10.
2.Theterm‘limericksentence’iscreditedtoDr.SteveLarson,whousedthetermin2008duringanemail
communicaAonwiththeSocietyforMusicTheory’sJazzInterestGroup.
3.Toviewtheoriginalpublishedmusicfor“ICan’tGetStarted”see
VernonDukeandIraGershwin,ICan’tGetStarted(NewYork:Chappel&Co.Inc.,1935).
4.Toviewthepublishedsheetmusicfor“Bewitched(BotheredandBewildered),”see
LorenzHartandRichardRodgers,Bewitched(BotheredandBewildered)NewYork:Chappell&Co.Inc.,1941),1-5.
ThesisCommi_ee:
Dr.KeithWaters
Dr.YonatanMalin
Dr.PhilipChang