How To Use Homophony In A Sentence
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The great Classical theorist Heinrich Koch established the two modern distinctions: monophony - polyphony, and polyphony - homophony.
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However, despite their surface homophony, the underlying phonemic structure of “set” and “said” are sufficiently different as to render them very unlikely candidates for human confusion.
Matthew Yglesias » The Gingrich Doctrine and the 21st Century
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This piece juxtaposes the calm homophony of the choir with a more mobile organ part.
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He based this on the homophony and homography of the first singular, and 'homophony' of the 2nd singular pronoun.
Minoan, Cyrus Gordon and academic politics
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By setting one voice against three, Byrd masterfully harnesses the emphatic qualities of both polyphony and homophony: the text repetition of the former and the clarity and unity of the latter.
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Homophony is a ubiquitous phenomenon across languages.
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These consorts show a rich vein of imagination, contrasting polyphony with homophony, and simple diatonic with chromatic passages, so that the contrapuntal devices act as a backdrop to the expression of intimate, fluctuating emotions.
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The use of a cantus firmus was not essential, while big intervals in the melodic lines, chromaticism and homophony in crucial places were all allowed to help the understanding of the words.
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He based this on the homophony and homography of the first singular, and 'homophony' of the 2nd singular pronoun.
Minoan, Cyrus Gordon and academic politics
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Being raised in a Lutheran tradition, my vocal writing is largely chorale style homophony contrasting with traditional contrapuntal textures.
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The word Cicero uses, lectulus, meant not just a bed for sleeping, but one for conversation and study — perhaps because of its partial homophony with legere, lectus, "gather by picking" (like flowers) and "read.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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In another, open octaves alternate with chordal homophony.
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Note that I'm not denying that languages can and do differ in their relative amounts of homophony, word-sense ambiguity and lexical category ambiguity.
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The majority of Pedro de Cristo's surviving works are, however, written for four or five voices and in a predominantly imitative style although homophony is the basic texture in the settings of responsories and psalms, and short homorhythmic passages are common in other works.
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Akkadian also inherited homophony from Sumerian, the capacity of different signs to represent the same sound.
The Whisperers
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What you write is as important as the way you read it which increases the risk of execution for scribes who are not careful enough about homophony, homography, and literary connotations ; one emperor's tendency to paranoïa critique is often deadly.
Languagehat.com: SHIH SHIH.
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Strict homophony prevails in the motets for the Elevation of the Host.
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In most well-written homophony, the parts that are not melody may still have a lot of melodic interest.
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