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by fellow_human 2117 days ago
An obvious example of this is pop music. Often following the verse chorus form and also different genres having different constraints in terms of instruments used.
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"same tune, wildly different lyrics" is as old as rocks, too.

some trivial examples involve roughly every hymn, "god bless the queen"/"my country 'tis of thee", "john brown's body"/"battle hymn of the republic", "to anacreon in heav'n"/"the star spangled banner" ....

The other big case are missals: same words, vastly different settings. You know the lyrics are the Mass, but how they're sung is where you show off.