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/ˌmɑnəˈfɑnɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
- consisting of a single melodic line
- designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel
How To Use monophonic In A Sentence
- This approach may have been the source of several basic qualities of shirei Erez Israel: The songs are suited for community sing-alongs, dictating the need for a simple textual and musical structure, uncomplicated melodies, uniformity of subject matter and ease of performance (chiefly monophonic and unison singing), thereby enabling diverse audiences of varying ages to sing them. Hebrew Song, 1880-2000.
- It is a mark of Pahud's musicianship that even the monophonic instrumental line sounds richly harmonized and balanced on this recording.
- The sound quality is very good considering the source is often monophonic optical tracks (some of the soundtracks from the mid-1950s onward are sourced from magnetic tape).
- A new release will have you twisting and shouting in living monophonic sound.
- The results are probably about as rich-sounding as is possible from monophonic sound.
- The original Trautonium was essentially a monophonic instrument: Indeed, it could be described as a state of the art descendant of the Pythagorean monochord - a wire stretched across a fingerboard.
- The monophonic and polyphonic repertoire of Notre Dame was cultivated in the same as the popular Cantigas de amigo, secular love-songs in Galician-Portuguese, the then poetic language. Archive 2009-07-01
- In reality the source recordings are specified as monophonic; there are no processing instructions in the score to synthesize the necessary localization cues.
- Some 60 settings use the psalmodic tones; a number of others have monophonic tunes used as cantus firmi. Archive 2009-06-01
- The soundtrack is two-channel mono, and is very good with a spacious quality that belies its monophonic nature.