xenochrony
/ziːˈnɒkɹəni/
xenochrony noun: a studio technique where a guitar solo or other musical part is transposed into a completely different song.
Noun
xenochrony (uncountable)
- A studio technique where a guitar solo or other musical part is transposed into a completely different song.
- Still, xenochrony was new: he had to fight his own engineers to allow him to do it, and it resulted in some extraordinary music.1997, Andre Kostelanetz, The Frank Zappa Companion: Four Decades of Commentary, Schirmer Books, →ISBN, page 183
- Xenochrony is the technical term for this, and you can hear it when several shamans participate in one ritual, each with a personal tempo of drumming, each addressing personal spirits. Xenochrony became, in fact, an important strand in the story of K-Space, the trio that Ken Hyder and I put...2016, Tim Hodgkinson, Music and the Myth of Wholeness: Toward a New Aesthetic Paradigm, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 148
Origin of xenochrony
From xeno- (“alien”) + Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”), coined by Frank Zappa.
Words formed from xenochrony
Questions about xenochrony
- What does xenochrony mean?
- Xenochrony means a studio technique where a guitar solo or other musical part is transposed into a completely different song.
- What part of speech is xenochrony?
- Xenochrony is a noun.
- How do you pronounce xenochrony?
- Xenochrony is pronounced /ziːˈnɒkɹəni/.
Words near xenochrony in the dictionary
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