Simple song form with repetitive and linked verses
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"The Twelve Days of Christmas" is a cumulative song.
A cumulative song is a song with a simple verse structure modified by progressive addition so that each verse is longer than the verse before. Cumulative songs are popular for group singing, in part because they require relatively little memorization of lyrics, and because remembering the previous verse to concatenate it to form the current verse can become a kind of game.
A cumulativesong is a song with a simple verse structure modified by progressive addition so that each verse is longer than the verse before. Cumulative...
little goat, or "one kid"; Hebrew: "גדי אחד gedi echad") is a playful cumulativesong in Aramaic and Hebrew. It is sung at the end of the Passover Seder...
Swallowed a Fly") is a children's rhyme and nonsense song of a kind known as cumulative. The song tells the nonsensical story of an old woman who swallows...
Yodea" (Hebrew: אחד מי יודע?, lit. 'One, Who Knows?') is a traditional cumulativesong sung on Passover and found in the haggadah. It enumerates common Jewish...
cumulativesong or nursery rhyme. Many cumulative tales feature a series of animals or forces of nature each more powerful than the last. Cumulative tales...
As a popular classic children's song today, it is an example of a cumulativesong. It is similar to the Irish folk song The Rattlin' Bog and versions exist...
The "Farmyard Song" (Roud number 544) is a cumulativesong about farm animals, originating in the British Isles and also known in North America. It is...
'Round the Mountain". It is a simple repetitive song and the verse pattern follows a cumulativesong format, similar to "Ten Green Bottles": There were...
The Barley Mow (Roud 944) is a cumulativesong celebrated in the traditions of folk music of England, Ireland, and Scotland. William Chappell transcribed...
throughout the year." "A Partridge in a Pear Tree" is the first gift in the cumulativesong "The Twelve Days of Christmas". The pear tree was an object of particular...
many versions, the song is cumulative, with the animal sounds from all the earlier verses added to each subsequent verse. The song was probably written...
That Jack Built" is a popular English nursery rhyme and cumulative tale. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20854. It is Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index...
how it goes." Cumulativesongs build from one verse to another, like bricks on a pile, as in "Old McDonald Had a Farm". 'Counting songs' may count up...
can be identified reliably as any historical figure. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 1164. The poem describes a merry king who called for his...
October 11, 2022. "Zico Chart History (South Korea Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved May 7, 2024. Cumulative sales of "Okey Dokey": "Gaon Download Chart – 2015"...
The "Schnitzelbank" is a simple song, popular primarily with German Americans. Schnitzelbank literally means "scrap bench" or "chip bench" (from Schnitzel...
"Ten Green Bottles" is a popular children's repetitive song that consists of a single verse of music that is repeated, with each verse decrementing by...
Cheep") is an Italian song released as a single on 18 July 2012 on Globo Records by the Rome radio station Radio Globo. The song was interpreted by Morgana...
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