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GCSE English Literature · key term
A song sung by several voices entering at different times, creating overlapping musical parts.
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Paper 1
A comic song sung in overlapping parts by several voices.
Revise: Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and MariaToby and Andrew drink after midnight, pay Feste to sing and join in a catch. Overlapping voices, interruptions and snatches of song make their disorder audible. When Malvolio tries to restore discipline, Toby and Feste answer through song, refusing to treat the warning seriously.
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Component 1
A song in which different singers enter successively, creating overlapping parts.
Revise: Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and MariaToby and Andrew drink after midnight, pay Feste to sing and join in a catch. The movement between prose conversation and singing makes the scene feel communal and disorderly. When Malvolio attempts to stop them, Toby and Feste answer him with fragments of song, preventing a serious reprimand from controlling the scene.
A song sung as a round, with different singers beginning the same tune at different times.
