Video for White Windmill

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White Windmill (白色风车) - Overall structure and interesting features

The song started off with theme and then goes on to the verse and chorus. After which he then repeats both the verse and chorus again.

I find that songs starting with the theme is especially common in Jay's compositions. This makes a striking feature so as to capture listeners' attention.

Unlike the principles of repetition in musical forms that we learnt in class, this song is structured in a way which is sort of similar to traditional Chinese poetry writing. I remembered my Chinese teacher telling me that the most basic form of poetry writing is using 5 words to form one phrase. We can see this in the start of the song and after which he moves on to 7 words in one phrase. This is perhaps another way to make listeners have a greater impression of his song and that it's easier to remember too.

One of the interesting features in this song is the use of accidentals as anticipations. As seen in bar 5 and 41.