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108.166Every section needs a job

Possible jobs:

  • establish identity
  • repeat to create expectation
  • contrast
  • develop
  • destabilize
  • modulate
  • build
  • release
  • recall
  • conclude

If a section's job is:

“because songs usually have another section,”

rewrite.