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  2. Monophony - Wikipedia

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    This melody for the traditional song "Pop Goes the Weasel" is monophonic as long as it is performed without chordal accompaniment. [1]Play ⓘ. In music, monophony is the simplest of musical textures, consisting of a melody (or "tune"), typically sung by a single singer or played by a single instrument player (e.g., a flute player) without accompanying harmony or chords.

  3. List of classical music genres - Wikipedia

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    Ambrosian chant – Monophonic liturgical music used in the liturgy of the Ambrosian Rite. Ballade – French poetic-musical form. Ballata – Medieval Italian poetry accompanied by music. Canso – Song of troubadour tradition. Cantiga – Monophonic song of Spanish or Portuguese origin, often about religious themes or courtly love.

  4. Gregorian chant - Wikipedia

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    Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed mainly in western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions.

  5. List of online digital musical document libraries - Wikipedia

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    black and white, medieval, monophonic: Medieval-era manuscripts written during the reign of Alfonso X "El Sabio" (1221–1284). One of the largest collections of monophonic (solo) songs from the Middle Ages. The To Codex contains roughly the first 100 cantigas, the E Codex all of the cantigas.

  6. List of compositions by Hildegard of Bingen - Wikipedia

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    List of compositions by Hildegard of Bingen [1] [2] Work Title Genre Feast B-DEa MS 9 D-WIl Hs. 2 No. Folios No. Folios O vis eternitatis Responsory — — — R 1 466 O magne Pater Antiphon — D 1 153r R 2 466 O eterne Deus Antiphon — D 2 153r R 3 466 O virtus Sapientie Antiphon — — — R 4 466 O quam mirabilis Antiphon — — — R 5

  7. Plainsong - Wikipedia

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    The monophonic chants of plainsong have a non-metric rhythm, [3] which is generally considered freer than the metered rhythms of later Western music. [3] They are also traditionally sung without musical accompaniment, though recent scholarship has unearthed a widespread custom of accompanied chant that transcended religious and geographical ...

  8. Texture (music) - Wikipedia

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    The first four bars are monophonic, with both hands performing the same melody an octave apart: Schubert Sonata in B scherzo bars 1–4 Schubert Piano Sonata in B major scherzo bars 1–4 . Bars 5–10 are homophonic, with all voices coinciding rhythmically: Schubert Sonata in B scherzo bars 5–10 Schubert Piano Sonata in B scherzo bars 5–10

  9. List of compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven - Wikipedia

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    Title page of Beethoven's symphonies from the Gesamtausgabe. The list of compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven consists of 722 works [1] written over forty-five years, from his earliest work in 1782 (variations for piano on a march by Ernst Christoph Dressler) when he was only eleven years old and still in Bonn, until his last work just before his death in Vienna in 1827.