What is the theory of formulaic composition? How does this theory relate to Sheikh Taha’s performance of the Sirat Bani Hilal?

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• The theory of formulaic composition is the idea that improvisations of epic performances by poet-singers draw from a "storehouse of familiar ideas and poetic formulas." Poets work orally from memorized texts to create rhymed verses of great length, texts taken from a "vast repertory of traditional phrases, half-lines, and whole verses and retell the stories as each performance using the rhetoric and style of epic poetry. [Worlds of Music citing Reynolds, 1996]."
• The theory of formulaic composition is also "useful for understanding the way a great many contemporary musicians—like blues or rap artists, for example—work as well."
• According to Dwight Reynolds who made the field recording.
• Sheikh Taha, the poet-singer of the excerpt of the epic Sirat Bani Hihbal, exemplified the theory of formulaic composition in his performance,

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