The Golden Age was during the 1920s and 1930s, certain characteristic musical structures and styles of performance dominated popular songs. Professional tunesmiths wrote some of the most influential and commercially successful songs of the period. The potential for fame and financial success on a previously unknown scale lured composers and lyricists with diverse skills and backgrounds such as Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin. The emphasis of form is that song forms were inherited from the nineteenth century. In the song “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair”, the structure AABA was its form. While verse-and-chorus was the form for the song “After the Ball”. There is verse-refrain from with an AABA refrain which