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Looking at these three lines of one piece, you can see that lines A are the same while they have a break in between, line B, which is only slightly different. This creates the repetition with evolution that Ratliff speaks of.

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"Repetition is a smart psychological operation-- a way to make you focus on all that is in fact nonrepetitive. The music seems to stay put, while you (or your perceptions) change. Then you stay put while it changes. It suggests infinity or eternity, basically."

-Ben Ratliff

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This song exemplifies the musical element of repetition in the modern day of music. Although the main rhythm stays the same throughout the song, there are several elements of variations throughout that make the song unique. It has several irregular breaks in between which make it longer.

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After reading Ratliff's "Every Song Ever" I have learned the importance of the musical element known as repetition. This element applies to music of all kinds. Ratliff defines repetition as, "more periodic than continuous, with longer or perhaps irregular breaks between the actions." I believe this kind of repetition makes the audience more positive. They might have the feeling to provide for others. Ratliff gave an example saying that they might add to an ongoing process like, "helping your child get ready for school." I agree with Ratliff when he says that repetition is not good when there is "one unchanging tone, or exact copy of a tone, without evolution." I think that repetition is a little more about the music itself. In this padlet I will be giving examples that exemplify the musical element repetition.

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This song was one of the examples that Ratliff says exemplifies repetition. This song was divided into two parts, this influenced later jazz musicians and producers to do this as well. Releasing a song this way was based on an actual need. The need was to stretch it out.

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"In music there's imagined to be a general split between two orientations: variation and repetition. But it's not a pure split. The coexist in music, as they coexist in nature."

-Ben Ratliff

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Ratliff says that all music is ritual, in some form, so variation celebrates the proliferation of life. He says that when people start dancing, a kind of ownership ritual takes over. So by dancing, they've marked out their own physic space and started to take ownership of the music they're hearing. People dancing never want the music to stop.

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