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heterophony

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heterophony

Form of group music making found in folk music worldwide, in which the same melody line is presented simultaneously in plain and individually embellished forms.



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tonality, the blue notes, the often declamatory, melismatic singing style, heterophony, and more (Oliver 1970; Kubik 1999a).
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Both men regularly performed alone on the street or in the countryside (Charters 1967, 74; Brown and Owens 1981, 91) and heterophony doubled the volume produced by an itinerant signer trying to make himself heard in a noisy public place.
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