Ditch Standard Song Forms & Tell YOUR Musical Story
/Standard song forms are great - they provide us with tried-and-true ways to write character, develop plot, and write our musicals succinctly. But they aren’t always the most interesting forms, especially when every song in the show follows the same few structures over and over and over…
But luckily there are plenty of other non-standard ways to write and structure a song in musical theatre, which we have seen work time and time again. So, today let’s talk about non-standard song forms!
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