homophonic

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• The four singers, including the bride and bridegroom, try to cheer themselves up through the two verses of this perfect madrigal, or four-part song in alternating homophonic and polyphonic sections.

  Academic text (2000)

• (Like the Mozart, it is homophonic in some places; and like the Palestrina, it is polyphonic and imitative in other places.

  Academic text (2001)

• I would think Mozart would fall on the homophonic side.

  Blog text (32)

• Now let's move to the name of the piece, and you can see from the agenda that we will be working on intonation in the homophonic section at letter B.

  Academic text (2010)

• And we're also translating Shakespeare's Coriolanos into a homophonic version.

• (Note: The question about accompaniment will have more meaning now, as this is clearly an accompanied homophonic motet.)

  Academic text (2001)

• The homophonic shift also demonstrates a propensity for playing with textual meaning, a habit that accords with his extensive experience creating word puzzles for the newspaper.

  Academic text (2011)

• The monoalphabetic substitution cipher was becoming less secure, leading to the advent of the polyalphabetic cipher and the homophonic cipher.

  Blog text (21)

• The following playing test is applicable to most warm-up chorales arranged for band or orchestra, especially those in a hybrid texture, that is, having bass and inner parts that are more horizontally and less vertically oriented than would be the case in homophonic texture.

  Academic text (2001)

• In a homophonic piece, one melody stands out while the other instruments provide harmony.

How Polyphonic

polyphonic

• Specialized

2 7.2

homophonic

• Specialized

8.4

monophonic

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8.1

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