Texture

• Polyphonic 


  Texture made up of two or more melodies, heard at the same time
• Imitation

  • Opening of a melody is copies in one or more other parts in the texture while original melody continues
  • Copies version may be the same or different pitch to original
• Canon


  Imitative texture in which the copied versions of the melody are identical to the original
• layered 


  texture consisting of several different ideas on top of each other
• Unison


  Everyone performs the same note or melody