abstract:In music, heterophony is a type of texture characterized by the simultaneous variation of a single melodic line. Such a texture can be regarded as a kind of complex monophony in which there is only one basic melody, but realized at the same time in multiple voices, each of which plays the melody differently, either in a different rhythm or tempo, or with various embellishments and elaborations.
There is littleornoharmonysince the accompanyinginstrumentsmerelyduplicate the singing line or provide a slightvariation on it, asdescribedin the discussionabove on heterophony.