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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. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same). Excluded are the numerous spellings which fail to make the pronunciation obvious without actually being at odds with convention: for example, the pronunciation / s k ə ˈ n ɛ k t ə d i / [ 1 ] [ 2 ] of ...

  4. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    For example, puns normally involve homophones, but in the case of heterophonic (or imperfect) puns, the two words sound different, and yet similar enough for one to suggest the other (for example, mouth and mouse).

  5. 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.

  6. Balungan - Wikipedia

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    This corresponds to the view that gamelan music is heterophonic: the balungan is then the melody which is being elaborated. "An abstraction of the inner melody felt by musicians," [4] the balungan is, "the part most frequently notated by Javanese musicians, and the only one likely to be used in performance." [5]

  7. 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.

  8. In C - Wikipedia

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    Though the polyphonic interplay of the various patterns against each other and themselves at different rhythmic displacements is of primary interest, the piece may be considered heterophonic. The first UK performance of In C was on 18 May 1968 at Royal Institute Galleries by the Music Now Ensemble directed by Cornelius Cardew as part of a ...

  9. Music of Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    Music in the Ethiopian highlands is generally monophonic or heterophonic. [1] In certain southern areas, some music is polyphonic . Dorze polyphonic singing ( edho ) may employ up to five parts; Majangir , four parts.