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The most common texture in Western music: melody and accompaniment. Multiple voices of which one, the melody, stands out prominently and the others form a background of harmonic accompaniment. If all the parts have much the same rhythm, the homophonic texture can also be described as homorhythmic.
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In music, homorhythm (also homometer) is a texture having a "similarity of rhythm in all parts" [2] or "very similar rhythm" as would be used in simple hymn or chorale settings. [3] Homorhythm is a condition of homophony. [2] All voices sing the same rhythm. This texture results in a homophonic texture, which is a blocked chordal texture.
Style brisé (French: "broken style") is a general term for irregular arpeggiated texture in instrumental music of the Baroque period. It is commonly used in discussion of music for lute, keyboard instruments, or the viol. The original French term, in use around 1700, is style luthé ("lute style").
Micropolyphony is a kind of polyphonic musical texture developed by György Ligeti, which consists of many lines of dense canons moving at different tempos or rhythms, thus resulting in tone clusters.
A texture may be arranged so as to "closely approach the single-object status of fused-ensemble timbres, for example, the beautiful 'northern lights' chord..., in a very interesting distribution of pitches, produces a fused sound supported by a suspended cymbal roll".
Extra Texture (Read All About It) is the sixth studio album by the English musician George Harrison, released on 22 September 1975. It was Harrison's final album under his contract with Apple Records and EMI , and the last studio album issued by Apple.
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