Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The simultaneous playing or singing of two or more versions of a melody.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
heterophonia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) An abnormal state of the voice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music The
simultaneous performance , by a number ofsingers ormusicians of two or moreversions of the samemelody .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Small wonder, then, that the Fisk Jubilee Quartet's singing is polished and dignified in a way that now seems as "wrong" to us as the bluesy heterophony of "Po' Mo'ner Got a Home at Last" must have sounded to more than a few of the middle-class blacks who purchased a copy of Victor 16843.
Lovely Sounds of Sorrow Terry Teachout 2010
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In heterophony, there is only one melody, but different variations of it are being sung or played at the same time.
Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009
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Olivero uses a wide gamut of techniques to present the quoted folk material, ranging from rich, sensitive and simple (but not simplistic) arrangements to non-tonal metamorphoses of basic melodic cells, often presented through dense heterophony and clusters.
Betty Olivero. 2009
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There is some heterophony with some instruments playing more ornaments than others in "Donulmez Aksamin" and in "Urfaliyim Ezelden" on the Turkish Music page.
Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009
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Some Middle Eastern, South Asian, central Eurasian, and Native American music traditions include heterophony.
Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009
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Listen for traditional music most modern-composed music, even from these cultures, has little or no heterophony in which singers and/or instrumentalists perform the same melody at the same time, but give it different embellishments or ornaments.
Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009
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The clarinet was a big deal much earlier in New Orleans Jazz, where it played a mostly obbligato role (see also the page on heterophony).
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] JDWpianist 2010
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The clarinet was a big deal much earlier in New Orleans Jazz, where it played a mostly obbligato role (see also the page on heterophony).
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] JDWpianist 2010
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The clarinet was a big deal much earlier in New Orleans Jazz, where it played a mostly obbligato role (see also the page on heterophony).
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] JDWpianist 2010
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The clarinet was a big deal much earlier in New Orleans Jazz, where it played a mostly obbligato role (see also the page on heterophony).
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