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Call and response
2nd phrase heard as direct commentary on or response to 1st
Dovetailing
Swapping/overlapping musical phrases between parts
Imitation
Repetition of melody in polyphonic texture shortly after 1st appearance
Fugue
1 or 2 themes repeated/imitated by successively entering voices and contrapuntally developed in continuous interweaving of voice parts
Canon
contrapuntal technique where melody is played and imitated after short delay in another part
Heterophonic
simultaneous performances of melodic variants of same tune
Monophonic
1 melody
Homophonic
in pop music. Melody predominating. Multiple voices harmonically move together at same pace
Polyphonic
2 or more tones or melodic lines
Melody dominated homophony
melody and accompaniment, fragmented
Parallel 3rds
Melodies played 1 3rd above/below
Polarised
2 melody parts high in pitch and bass is low
Pontillist
isolated notes from melody heard 1 at a time
Cantusfirmus
Melody used as basis for polyphonic composition
Antedecent phrase
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