refrain

repeated lines in music or poetry
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refrain

Summary

refrain is a musical-structural concept[1]. refrain draws 268 Wikipedia views per month (musical_structural_concept category, ranking #4 of 16).[2]

Key Facts

  • refrain's instance of is recorded as musical-structural concept[3].
  • refrain's instance of is recorded as literature term[4].
  • refrain's genre is recorded as jazz[5].
  • refrain's GND ID is recorded as 4177356-1[6].
  • refrain's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85112273[7].
  • refrain's subclass of is recorded as passage[8].
  • refrain's part of is recorded as song[9].
  • refrain's part of is recorded as poetry[10].
  • refrain's part of is recorded as verse-chorus form[11].
  • refrain's Commons category is recorded as Chorus (song structure)[12].
  • refrain's said to be the same as is recorded as hook[13].
  • refrain's opposite of is recorded as song verse[14].
  • refrain's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 67886[15].
  • refrain's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01v20b[16].
  • refrain's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • refrain's described by source is recorded as National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[18].
  • refrain's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[19].
  • refrain's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[20].
  • refrain's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/refrain[21].
  • refrain's has characteristic is recorded as repetition[22].
  • refrain's different from is recorded as ritornello[23].
  • refrain's different from is recorded as stornello[24].
  • refrain's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00018783n[25].
  • refrain's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as refreng_-_musikk[26].
  • refrain's related image is recorded as Jingle Bells refrain vector.svg[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for refrain include verse-chorus form[28], a musical form[29].

Why It Matters

refrain draws 268 Wikipedia views per month (musical_structural_concept category, ranking #4 of 16).[2] refrain has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] refrain is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for refrain include verse-chorus form[28], a musical form[29].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Sachwörterbuch der Literatur (8 ed.). wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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