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  2. Texture (music) - Wikipedia

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    Although in music instruction certain styles or repertoires of music are often identified with one of these descriptions this is basically added music [clarification needed] (for example, Gregorian chant is described as monophonic, Bach Chorales are described as homophonic and fugues as polyphonic), many composers use more than one type of ...

  3. 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.

  4. Chanson - Wikipedia

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    [9] [10] Born of the cafés-concerts and cabarets of the Montmartre district of Paris and influenced by literary realism and the naturalist movements in literature and theatre, chanson réaliste was a musical style which was mainly performed by women and dealt with the lives of Paris's poor and working class.

  5. Unison - Wikipedia

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    Music in which all the notes sung are in unison is called monophonic. In a choir with two or more sections, such as for different vocal ranges, each section typically sings in unison. Part singing is when two or more voices sing different notes. Homophony is when choir members sing different pitches but with the same rhythm.

  6. Twelve Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman" - Wikipedia

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    Twelve Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman", K. 265/300e, is a piano composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composed when he was around 25 years old (1781 or 1782).). This piece consists of twelve variations on the French folk song "Ah! vous dirai-je, mam

  7. Category:Monophony - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Monophonic musical instruments (1 C, 1 P) Monophonic synthesizers (55 P) W. Whistles (1 C, 17 P)

  8. Homorhythm - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Round (music) - Wikipedia

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    "Up and Down This World Goes Round", three voice round by Matthew Locke. [1] Play ⓘ. A round (also called a perpetual canon [canon perpetuus], round about or infinite canon) is a musical composition, a limited type of canon, in which multiple voices sing exactly the same melody, but with each voice beginning at different times so that different parts of the melody coincide in the different ...