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Call and response

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2nd phrase heard as direct commentary on or response to 1st

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Dovetailing

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Swapping/overlapping musical phrases between parts

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Imitation

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Repetition of melody in polyphonic texture shortly after 1st appearance

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Fugue

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1 or 2 themes repeated/imitated by successively entering voices and contrapuntally developed in continuous interweaving of voice parts

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Canon

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contrapuntal technique where melody is played and imitated after short delay in another part

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Heterophonic

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simultaneous performances of melodic variants of same tune

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Monophonic

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1 melody

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Homophonic

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in pop music. Melody predominating. Multiple voices harmonically move together at same pace

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Polyphonic

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2 or more tones or melodic lines

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Melody dominated homophony

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melody and accompaniment, fragmented

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Parallel 3rds

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Melodies played 1 3rd above/below

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12
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Polarised

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2 melody parts high in pitch and bass is low

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Pontillist

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isolated notes from melody heard 1 at a time

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Cantusfirmus

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Melody used as basis for polyphonic composition

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Antedecent phrase

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Q&A

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Consequent phrase

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ends with complete sounding cadence