homophony

• The musical effect of the [[Counter-Reformation]] beginning in 1560 was to curtail the growing complexity of liturgical music, preferring [[homophony]] to polyphony. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• If you want some fancy words for how puns can be created, consider homophony, homography, homonomy, or polysemy. —  Grande Prairie Daily Herald Tribune
• From a linguistic point of view, the name Davidh can be understood as an imitation of yadhidh (homophony). —  Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective
• In others the play depends upon homophony, the same sound or word have different meanings. —  A Little Book of Filipino Riddles
• Our modern art of homophony is like that in having but a single melody at each moment of the piece; but it differs from the ancient in the important particular of a harmonic support for the melody tones composed of "chords in key." —  A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present

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