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Definition of Heterophony
1. n. An abnormal state of the voice.
Definition of Heterophony
1. Noun. (music) The simultaneous performance, by a number of singers or musicians of two or more versions of the same melody. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heterophony
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Medical Definition of Heterophony
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterophony
Literary usage of Heterophony
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"Third: heterophony. A Siamese orchestra plays neither in unison nor in parts,
for each of the various instruments takes its own liberties with a melody ..."
2. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1877)
"... antiphony ' their opposition ; and ' heterophony ' their change. And it will
do more for us than merely fasten the sense of the terms, if we now re-read ..."
3. Introduction to the literature of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and by Henry Hallam (1877)
"translated ' changes of the voice' is, in the Greek, technical,—' heterophony ';
and we have besides, rhythm, harmony, tune, melody, symphony, and antiphony ..."
4. Suum Cuique: Essays in Music by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck (1916)
"... him into a curious conflict between early eighteenth-century counterpoint,
early nineteenth-century homophony and late nineteenth-century heterophony. ..."
5. The Art of Music: A Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers by Daniel Gregory Mason (1915)
"We shall dismiss it with the well- supported conclusion of Riemann, that it does
not point to any form of heterophony, but to certain methods of ..."
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