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  2. Homorhythm - Wikipedia

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    Introduction to Sousa's "Washington Post March", m. 1-7 Play ⓘ features octave doubling [1] and a homorhythmic texture. 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]

  3. Ave Maria ... virgo serena - Wikipedia

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    The opening line shows the lyrical use of imitative counterpoint. The work was composed during Josquin des Prez's service at the North Italian court at Milan. It was initially thought to have been copied into the manuscript Munich 3154 by 1476. [1]

  4. Lyrics - Wikipedia

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    Lyrics in sheet music. This is a homorhythmic (i.e., hymn-style) arrangement of a traditional piece entitled "Adeste Fideles" (the original Latin lyrics to "O Come, All Ye Faithful") in standard two-staff format for mixed voices. Play ⓘ Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a ...

  5. Texture (music) - Wikipedia

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    If all the parts have much the same rhythm, the homophonic texture can also be described as homorhythmic. Characteristic texture of the Classical period and continued to predominate in Romantic music while in the 20th century, "popular music is nearly all homophonic," and, "much of jazz is also" though, "the simultaneous improvisations of some ...

  6. Homophony - Wikipedia

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    A homophonic texture may be homorhythmic, which means that all parts have the same rhythm. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Chorale texture is another variant of homophony. The most common type of homophony is melody-dominated homophony , in which one voice, often the highest, plays a distinct melody, and the accompanying voices work together to articulate an ...

  7. Hymn tune - Wikipedia

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    Homorhythmic (i.e., hymn-style) arrangement of a traditional piece entitled "Adeste Fideles", in standard two-staff format for mixed voices. Play ⓘ. A hymn tune is the melody of a musical composition to which a hymn text is sung.

  8. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 - Wikipedia

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    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme ('Awake, calls the voice to us'), [1] BWV 140, also known as Sleepers Awake, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded as one of his most mature and popular sacred cantatas.

  9. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme - Wikipedia

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    The author wrote in his preface, dated 10 August 1598: Day by day I wrote out my meditations, found myself, thank God, wonderfully well, comforted in heart, joyful in spirit, and truly content; gave to my manuscript the name and title of a Mirror of Joy... to leave behind me (if God should call me from this world) as a token of my peaceful, joyful, Christian departure, or (if God should spare ...