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  2. Heterophony - Wikipedia

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    In music, heterophony is a type of texture characterized by the simultaneous variation of a single melodic line. Such a texture can be regarded as a kind of complex monophony in which there is only one basic melody, but realized at the same time in multiple voices, each of which plays the melody differently, either in a different rhythm or tempo, or with various embellishments and elaborations ...

  3. Texture (music) - Wikipedia

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    The most common texture in Western music: melody and accompaniment. Multiple voices of which one, the melody, stands out prominently and the others form a background of harmonic accompaniment. If all the parts have much the same rhythm, the homophonic texture can also be described as homorhythmic.

  4. Lining out - Wikipedia

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    Lining out first appears in 17th century Britain when literacy rates were low and books were expensive. [1] [2] Precenting the line was characterised by a slow, drawn-out heterophonic and often profusely ornamented melody, while a clerk or precentor (song leader) chanted the text line by line before it was sung by the congregation.

  5. Call and response (music) - Wikipedia

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    Presentinge line was characterized a slow, drawn-out heterophonic and often profusely ornamented melody, while a clerk or precentor (song leader) chanted the text line by line before it was sung by the congregation. Scottish Gaelic psalm-singing by prepresentinge line was the earliest form of congregational singing adopted by Africans in America.

  6. Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair - Wikipedia

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    The song is included on the 1998 Prima Voce album Songs and Ballads by Richard Crooks. [4] The song figures prominently in an episode of the Old Time Radio show Quiet, Please titled "And Jeannie Dreams of Me" which aired October 17, 1948. The episode uses the song throughout and its title is a reversal of the song title which acts as a ...

  7. Ocean Eyes (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Ocean Eyes" is a song by American singer Billie Eilish from her debut EP, Don't Smile at Me (2017). It was initially released on SoundCloud on November 18, 2015, and commercially released on November 18, 2016 as the EP's lead single by Darkroom and Interscope Records.

  8. Organum - Wikipedia

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    Organum [a] (/ ˈ ɔːr ɡ ə n əm /) is, in general, a plainchant melody with at least one added voice to enhance the harmony, developed in the Middle Ages.Depending on the mode and form of the chant, a supporting bass line (or bourdon) may be sung on the same text, the melody may be followed in parallel motion (parallel organum), or a combination of both of these techniques may be employed.

  9. Music of Crete - Wikipedia

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    Cretan music has been largely heterophonic in texture or accompanied by drones and fifth chords on Cretan lute, classical guitar, mandolin, boulgari, and so forth. Drones are also played simultaneously on melody instruments such as the lyra and violin by bowing a second string (usually open) simultaneously as one plays the melody notes on ...