imitation

in polyphonic music, the repetition (exact or modified) of a melody in a different voice
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imitation

Summary

imitation is a musical concept[1]. imitation draws 29 Wikipedia views per month (musical_concept category, ranking #99 of 193).[2]

Key Facts

  • imitation's instance of is recorded as musical concept[3].
  • imitation's instance of is recorded as role[4].
  • imitation's subclass of is recorded as repeat[5].
  • imitation's Commons category is recorded as Imitation (music)[6].
  • imitation's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/083rmb[7].
  • imitation's facet of is recorded as fugue[8].
  • imitation's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • imitation's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • imitation's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[11].
  • imitation's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/imitation-music[12].
  • imitation's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2005884[13].
  • imitation's Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID is recorded as 1549[14].
  • imitation's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3914302[15].
  • imitation's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as imitatsiia-v-muzyke-6f396e[16].

Why It Matters

imitation draws 29 Wikipedia views per month (musical_concept category, ranking #99 of 193).[2] imitation has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] imitation is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). imitation. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/imitation-q1049742
MLA “imitation.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/imitation-q1049742.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_imitation-q1049742_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{imitation}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/imitation-q1049742}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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