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(Lat.). ‘Song’, ‘melody’.

The term has been used more specifically to denote the highest voice-part in a polyphonic work; see part (1).

Subjects: Music

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in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5) Length: 17 words
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in The Oxford Companion to Music (1 rev) Length: 23 words

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