thirty-two-bar form

The thirty-two-bar form, often shortened to AABA, is a musical form common in Tin Pan Alley songs, later popular music including rock and pop music, and jazz. Though "there were few instances of it in any type of popular music until the late teens," it became "the principal form" around 1925-1926. (Wilder 1972, p. 56)
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