The Poetic Pre-History of Sentence Form

Abstract

Sentence form has drawn a great deal of scholarly attention since the appearance of William Caplin’s Classical Form in 1998. Few publications, however, have considered the origins of the form and many seem to assume that it emerged from instrumental repertoire in the late Baroque period. This article reveals important connections between sentences and poetic texts in early popular song, especially in seventeenth-century British ballads, short-meter hymns, and German folk tunes.

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