Trope

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What Wikipedia says

A trope or tropus in medieval music is "any textual or melodic figure that is added to an existing chant without altering the textual or melodic structure of the said chant". It has inspired certain 20th- and 21st-century music conventions as well.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Trope (music)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: moines Daniel et Adémar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.