Telephone consists of an expanded musical element.
In music , especially western popular music , a bridge is a contrasting section that prepares for the return of the original material section .. music. music. popular music. popular music. section. section ( music ). The bridge may be the third eight-bar phrase in a thirty-two-bar form -LRB- the B in AABA -RRB- , or may be used more loosely in verse-chorus form , or , in a compound AABA form , used as a contrast to a full AABA section .. section. section ( music ). bar. bar ( music ). phrase. phrase ( music ). thirty-two-bar form. thirty-two-bar form. verse-chorus form. verse-chorus form. compound AABA form. compound AABA form. bar form. bar form. The term comes from a German word for bridge , Steg , used by the Meistersingers of the 15th to the 18th century to describe a transitional section in medieval bar form .. section. section ( music ). bar. bar ( music ). bar form. bar form. The German term became widely known in 1920s Germany through musicologist Alfred Lorenz and his exhaustive studies of Richard Wagner 's adaptations of bar form in his popular 19th-century neo-medieval operas .. bar. bar ( music ). bar form. bar form. Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner. The term entered the English lexicon in the 1930s -- translated as bridge -- via composers fleeing Nazi Germany who , working in Hollywood and on Broadway , used the term to describe similar transitional sections in the American popular music they were writing .. music. music. popular music. popular music