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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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    Although in music instruction certain styles or repertoires of music are often identified with one of these descriptions this is basically added music [clarification needed] (for example, Gregorian chant is described as monophonic, Bach Chorales are described as homophonic and fugues as polyphonic), many composers use more than one type of ...

  4. Mickey Mousing - Wikipedia

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    Mickey Mousing occurred with forms of the Villain's Theme, such as with steps synchronized with the notes [1] Play ⓘ. In animation and film, "Mickey Mousing" (synchronized, mirrored, or parallel scoring) is a film technique that syncs the accompanying music with the actions on screen, "Matching movement to music", [2] or "The exact segmentation of the music analogue to the picture."

  5. Traditional sub-Saharan African harmony - Wikipedia

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    Traditional sub-Saharan African harmony is a music theory of harmony in sub-Saharan African music based on the principles of homophonic parallelism (chords based around a leading melody that follow its rhythm and contour), homophonic polyphony (independent parts moving together), counter-melody (secondary melody) and ostinato-variation (variations based on a repeated theme).

  6. 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 ...

  7. List of children's animated films - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of animated films aimed primarily at children.The films are designed to hold children's attention and often have an educational dimension, particularly around cultural values, This list has all the animated films that are always dubbed in North-West Europe, Poland, Portugal, Balkan, Baltic and Nordic countries, where generally only kids movies and kids TV shows (including all ...

  8. Bosnian root music - Wikipedia

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    Bosnian root music is a polyphonic, or more commonly heterophonic music, which is usually sung by two singers. The first singer starts the song, and after some number of syllables the other joins in. Intervals used in this type of singing are minor and major second , which is characteristic for most of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian music, and ...

  9. Vocal harmony - Wikipedia

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    Operas and choral music from the Romantic era used tense-sounding vocal harmonies with augmented and diminished intervals as an important tool for underscoring the drama of the music. With contemporary music from the 1900s and 2000s, composers made increasingly difficult demands on choirs which were singing in vocal harmony, such as ...