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As we read chapter one of Ben Ratliff's "Every Song Ever", we are challenged to evaluate the idea of repetition within music and how it is used to interact with an audience or listener. Ratliff provides many different musical examples and interpretations in order to try and help us understand this concept and encourage us as readers to explore this idea in our own ways through our own music.

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When we hear the word "repetition" we think (in the simplest words) of something occurring over and over again. Ben Ratliff talks about the idea of repetition in music in his book "Every Song Ever". While talking on the subject, he argues that repetition is a way to expand on a musical idea rather than actually just repeating something over and over. Ratliff says that "The music seems to stay put while you (or your perceptions) change" (Ratliff, Every Song Ever, pg. 14). I agree with this argument because it seems right to say that in music, while repetition will be used to restate a musical idea, it will not stay the same; the same idea will be presented to the listener in a different way in order to add expression and change the way the listener views the music.

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One of the musical examples that Ratliff includes in his argument is one called "Ain't It Funky Now" by James Brown. When talking about the piece, Ratliff says that Brown does in amazing thing in the song: "He starts to talk, rhythmically, sometimes repeating himself, not really going anywhere, cycling through his catalog of phrases, as an improvising musician does," (Ratliff, Every Song Ever, pg. 17). This improvisation from Brown very successfully exercises this idea of repetition in music that Ratliff argues in his book. Throughout his song, Brown continues to repeat the phrase "Ain't in Funky Now", changing his tone each time as well as the exclamation of the phrase. While he is repeating the same words over and over, the audience is forced to stray from boredom as he changes it up, if even just a little amount, each time!

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A musical example that I believe expresses Ratliff's idea of repetition is the song "Tequila" by The Champs, this time expressed through the music rather than just the lyrics of the song. Each time the melody of the song is played, it changes a little. This idea is shown within the first 40 seconds of the song. As the saxophone plays the recurring line, the style is improvised in the next time it's played. This song is one that shows repetition in a great way!

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Ratliff provides us with many great explanations and ideas regarding music and repetition and it is a concept to always keep in mind!