> in which the individual players in the orchestra are each asked to play their phrase or repeated fragment in their own time — rhythmically independent from the other musicians.
That's something that exists in many cultures across the world, including in Europe in western Scotland and some parts of the Balkans. They usually call it heterophony.
I wasn’t familiar with the term but from Wikipedia it seems to refer to the same melodic phrase being played by different musicians. Lutoslawski assigns different phrases to different instruments which is not quite the same.
That's something that exists in many cultures across the world, including in Europe in western Scotland and some parts of the Balkans. They usually call it heterophony.