Line cliché

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Line Cliché (English-French) [ 'lain kli'ʃɛj ] describes a musical composition scheme in which a short melodic phrase or harmony is repeated several times while the bass part rises or falls in semitone or whole-tone steps. This creates a new harmonic variant with each repetition, which gives the mostly simple melody an interesting tension. This technique comes from jazz music , but is also used in pop music . Depending on whether the starting harmony is a major or a minor chord , a distinction is made between major and minor line cliché.

Sheet music example of a minor line cliché

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