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  • adjective music Having the same rhythm throughout

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Examples

  • The majority of Pedro de Cristo's surviving works are, however, written for four or five voices and in a predominantly imitative style although homophony is the basic texture in the settings of responsories and psalms, and short homorhythmic passages are common in other works.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

  • Other aspects – repeated notes, homorhythmic textures, rhythmically diminished motivic reworking, and consistent anticipation by the contratenor and discantus of the tenor's melody in one piece, Vostre oeul – bespeak a more modern style.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009

  • The texture is prevailingly full throughout, and often homorhythmic.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009

  • Compact and frequently homorhythmic in the prevailing four-voice passages, its skilful combination of cantus-firmus structure with principles of parody technique recurs in the Missa ‘Tant bel mi sont pensade’.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009

  • Its homophonic and homorhythmic style recall the old conductus, long since fallen ou of fashion.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

  • They show a strong relationship to masses by Compère and Gaffurius and are written in a typically ‘Italian’ style in which sectional structure, alternation between homorhythmic declamation and free polyphony, frequent duos in paired imitation and extensive syllabic texting are characteristic.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • In that regard, I refrained from employing several of my typical compositional tricks, most notably I kept the materials homorhythmic for entire sections.

    NewMusicBox 2010

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