Renaissance polyphonic style where subjects move between the lines or voices, often overlapping one another
Continuous imitation
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Chase
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improvisations where one player performs a melodic riff and other members in the band take up the theme, often adding additio…
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Imitation is common in polyphonic writing and helps create coherence between voices. In classical guitar arrangements, imitat…
String quartet
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a quartet formed of one first violinist, one second violinist, one violist and one cellist
Antiphonal
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a musical form where one section of performers answers another
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a complex 1940's jazz style, characterized by very fast or very slow tempos with improvised lines of notes, irregular accents…
Bop
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a complex 1940's jazz style, characterized by very fast or very slow tempos with improvised lines of notes, irregular accents…
Non-imitative polyphony
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two or more independent melodic lines that do not share material with one another
Proportion
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the relationship of one note's duration to one another