the upper, or higher, voice or melody in a musical composition of two or more parts
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System
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notation of a line of music including all the parts and voices involved, presented in a group of two or more staves which are…
Homophonic
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a musical composition for 2 or more parts with a single melody line, all other parts serving as accompaniments
Homophony
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a musical composition for 2 or more parts with a single melody line, all other parts serving as accompaniments
Quintus
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Latin
the fifth voice in a sixteenth century composition having five or more vocal parts, sometimes a 'descant' or 'countermelody'…
Basso ostinato
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ground bass, a pattern repeated several times over in the bass line to accompany one or more ever varying upper parts
Heterophonic
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two or more lines performing the same melody but applying different embellishments
Heterophony
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two or more lines performing the same melody but applying different embellishments
Parallel intervals
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the movement in two or more parts of the same intervals in the same direction