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heterophony
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het·er·oph·o·ny  (ht-rf-n)
n.
The simultaneous playing or singing of two or more versions of a melody.

heter·o·phonic (-r--fnk) adj.

heterophony [ˌhɛtəˈrɒfənɪ]
n
(Music / Classical Music) the simultaneous performance of different versions of the same melody by different voices or instruments


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But to read them contrapuntally, retrospectively and heterophonically with other histories and traditions counterpointed against them, and to read them in the light of decolonization, is "neither to slight their great aesthetic force nor to treat them reductively as imperialist propaganda.
26) Said quotes Boulez who suggests that Messiaen offers a paradigm "to think things through together, heterophonically, variationally" (Musical Elaborations 97, referring to P.
 
 
 
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