Sound and Vision in Pop/ Pop rock

It is obvious that the use of song and film is extremely important in music videos, especially Pop. A great deal of research carried out on Pop music reveals that Pop videos are concerned with the issues brought up within the narrative, making it most important to understand the relationship between the structured sounds and images. Alf Bjonberg suggests that there are two structural aspects of music, narrative and epic. Bjonberg defines the narrative musical syntax as 'linear', in which there is no repetition in the music, therefore it only moves forward. On the other hand, he describes the epic syntax as 'circular', which is most common in Pop music, this means that the music holds hooks, choruses, verses, bridges and vocal repetition. This is where the visual differences appear between pop and other music genres, since other genre videos make great use of linear narratives, whereas Pop music would apply more circular visual narratives, with repeated images accompanying the lyrics (chorus).