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monophony

NOUN
  1. music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment)

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  • The wind continued to carry its load of lonesome song " a lowing, an unceasing monophony that drew a cold white chalk line down Ethan's spine. Icerigger
  • Before the 10th or 11th century, all Western music was [[monophony | monophonic]], or consisting of only one voice, which was usually a liturgical [[Gregorian chant | chant]]. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Monophony Strictly speaking, monophonic music is a single melodic line, without harmony or even octaves.
  • In both cases, the response ‘Deo gracias’ was sung in simple monophony.
  • Central to all music from Syria and Arab countries are monophony and heterophony, vocal flourishes, subtle intonation, rich improvisation, and the Arab scales.
  • Apparently Handel associates monophony with "walking in darkness"! Archive 2009-05-01
  • The great Classical theorist Heinrich Koch established the two modern distinctions: monophony - polyphony, and polyphony - homophony.
  • In its vocal sections, Kancheli's debt to medieval monophony is clear, however tempered with modernism.
  • Meanwhile the growth of the individual led to the growth of monophony in music, in which one voice stands out prominently, with an accompaniment of other voices. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music
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