Imitation (music)
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In music, imitation is when a musical gesture is repeated later in a different form, but retaining its original character. A canon exists solely by grace of imitation.
In counterpoint, a phrase or theme introduced by one voice could be imitated almost exactly by a second voice, usually at a different pitch. When a phrase recurs exactly as before, it is called strict imitation.
Imitatitive writing was featured heavily in the highly polyphonic compositions of the renaissance and baroque eras.
In pop music a much clichéd form of imitation consists of a background choir repeating — usually the last notes — of the Lead Singer's last line.
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