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Trope Another meaning of 'Trope' is Jewish cantillation .
A trope is a play on words, a word used in something other than what is considered its literal or normal form. It comes from the greek word, tropos , which means a "turn", as in heliotrope , a flower which turns toward the sun. We can imagine a trope as a way of turning a word away from its normal meaning, or turning it into something else.
There are four kinds of tropes:
In music, a trope is an unordered collection of six different pitches, what is now called an unordered hexachord , of which there are two in twelve tone equal temperament . Tropes were used by Josef Matthias Hauer in his twelve-tone technique developed just before but overshadowed by Arnold Schoenberg 's.
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