Heterophony

Heterophony (Greek heteros, "different, dissimilar, notwithstanding ") is a musical form between unanimity and a batch polyphony. All sing or play the same melody. However, the individual voices soft in their improvisational design and decoration more or less of this main melody from.

Origin

The term heterophony was introduced in 1901 by the musicologist Carl Stumpf, citing Plato and stood by him for a special form of spontaneous polyphony, in which a " in the Broad identical tonal movement " (butt ) of several players or singers at the same time, however, in the details will be presented deviating from each other (in different variants).

Dissemination

Straight Phone music-making can be found in the Arabic, Persian and Turkish art music, jazz they come on the one hand in the early forms of street bands and marching bands for use, on the other hand, in the free jazz, realized by the conscious and deliberately delayed ( phase shifted ) presentation of the topic by two blowers. Also in Irish Folk heterophony is widespread: Because in the normal session usually played monophonic (possibly with backing of drones ) Tunes, only makes the heterophony for true diversity and uniqueness of individual session musician.