A patient sent home in unstable condition or sent to a hospital that doesn't have the facilities to treat their condition could have legal recourse under EMTALA. Hospitals are Required to Take Transfers for Specialized Services: This addresses the practice of reverse-dumping, where hospitals with specialized units, such as a burn unit, only accept patients with the ability to pay.
Heterophony is often a characteristic feature of non-Western traditional musicsâfor example Arabic classical music, Japanese Gagaku, the gamelan music of Indonesia, kulintang ensembles of the Philippines and the traditional music of Thailand. In European traditions, there are only few examples of heterophony.
1 Homophony is an important category of musical texture. 2  It comprises a melody and an accompaniment. 3  The accompaniment may consist of chords moving together with the melody, or a more elaborate pattern, possibly of broken chords or figurations.  The melody may be in the highest register or it may be lower in the texture.