Rhythm and Structure

Listening to a song carefully allowed me to find many details about the song. Although this was much harder to do with classical music, I was still able to find a few details. I chose to listen to "Sympathy" by the Goo Goo Dolls for my choice of music. I was able to find that the song was written in common time. This was easy to figure out because the lead guitar played the same rhythm repeated throughout the song. The structure of the song was easy to spot because of the lyrics. I found that the chorus repeated three times with slight changes. There were also three different verses with bridges after two of them, and an outro at the end of the song. Identifying all of these details was quite easy since the song has lyrics, but I found out that songs without lyrics make it much harder to identify structure. I listened to J.S. Bach's "Overture (Partita) in the French Style in B Minor." I listened to Movement VII. Sarabande. This piece was played by a single clavichord. I believe this piece was in common time as well, but it was hard to tell. I had a hard time figuring out the structure of this piece since it was a single instrument with no words. I believe that I heard one part repeat one or two times within the piece. Overall I found that structure of songs is more difficult to distinguish than many other things that we have identified so far.