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Homophony began by appearing in sacred music, replacing polyphony and monophony as the dominant form, but spread to secular music, for which it is one of the standard forms today. Composers known for their homophonic work during the Baroque period include Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, and Johann Sebastian Bach.
In music, heterophony is a type of texture characterized by the simultaneous variation of a single melodic line. Such a texture can be regarded as a kind of complex monophony in which there is only one basic melody, but realized at the same time in multiple voices, each of which plays the melody differently, either in a different rhythm or tempo, or with various embellishments and elaborations ...
Introduction to Sousa's "Washington Post March", mm. 1–7 features octave doubling [1] and a homorhythmic texture. In music, texture is how the tempo and the melodic and harmonic materials are combined in a musical composition, determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece.
Traditional sub-Saharan African harmony is a music theory of harmony in sub-Saharan African music based on the principles of homophonic parallelism (chords based around a leading melody that follow its rhythm and contour), homophonic polyphony (independent parts moving together), counter-melody (secondary melody) and ostinato-variation (variations based on a repeated theme).
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]
Venn diagram showing the relationships between homophones (blue circle) and related linguistic concepts. A homophone (/ ˈ h ɒ m ə f oʊ n, ˈ h oʊ m ə-/) is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning or in spelling.
English is rich in homophony. Of forty-four English language sound combinations, listed in one dictionary, thirty-nine of them have more than two signs, and only one of them has one sign. The English consonant sound represented in IPA as / k / has these homophones: c ar, k ill, a cc ount, ba cch anal, ch ara c ter, ba ck , ac qu aint, la cqu er ...
Modern Greek spelling is largely unambiguous, but there are a few cases where a word has distinct learned and vernacular meaning and pronunciation, despite having the same root, and where <ia> is pronounced /ja/ vs. /i.a/; [6] Some of these distinctions are being neutralized in modern speech.