Refrains and Songs

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Songs and refrains are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Songs" instead a noun "Refrains".

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Refrains and songs are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Refrains" instead a noun "Songs".

The band tends to leave most refrains and call-and-response parts to the audience, at least on songs that are relatively well-known: Some songs will have the audience singing along on the entire song, prompted or no.

Source: Music / Kaizers Orchestra
This doesn't happen too often in modern popular songs, partly because they're rather short and partly because it's hard to do them smoothly, but can sometimes be found between verses and refrains, with verses in one key and refrains in another.

Source: Modulation

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