Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A style of composition having a single melodic line.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as monody, 1.
Wiktionary
- n. music the characteristic of a piece that has only a primary melody and no secondary melody or accompaniment
WordNet 3.0
- n. music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment)
Etymologies
- mono- + (poly)phony. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Apparently Handel associates monophony with "walking in darkness"!”
“Meanwhile the growth of the individual led to the growth of monophony in music, in which one voice stands out prominently, with an accompaniment of other voices.”
“Before the 10th or 11th century, all Western music was [[monophony | monophonic]], or consisting of only one voice, which was usually a liturgical [[Gregorian chant | chant]].”
“The wind continued to carry its load of lonesome song " a lowing, an unceasing monophony that drew a cold white chalk line down Ethan's spine.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘monophony’.
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MUSIC - ALL TERMS
With focus on non-classical styles, but not excluding terms of the latter.
banjo, accompaniment, acoustic bass, bass guitar, bass clef, ground, brass, cornet, Mute, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, arrangement and 866 more...
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Music
musical terms
ritornello, tutti, rondo, polyphony, monody, monophony, homophony, leitmotif
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harmony of the spheres
tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, subtonic, leading tone, progression, sonata, concerto, allegro and 247 more...
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Musical words
nocturne, flat, sharp, waltz, etude, opera, soprano, alto, tenor, bass, cello, flute and 131 more...
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Typewriter words
Long English words that can be typed on a keyboard under various restictions. The longest are:
QWERTY left hand only: aftercataracts, sweaterdresses, tesseradecades, and tetrastearates...abracadabras, aftercataracts, aftereffects, barebreasted, decerebrated, desegregated, detractresses, extravagated, extravasated, reaggregated, resegregated, reverberated and 111 more...
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What Is the Sound of One Hand Typing?
Words you can type with one hand--if you learned how to type formally. Hunt-and-peck method doesn't count. ;-) I'm keeping it to five or more letters to avoid an excessively lengthy list.
<...racecar, start, create, desert, dessert, secret, secrete, sweet, tresses, poppy, puppy, homonym and 141 more...
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