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There are more precise terms which describe the number and relationships between voices:

  • '' Monophony '' (base musical texture) is music with just one part (such as Gregorian Chant ).

  • '' Heterophony '' is a kind of complex monophony - there is only one melody, but multiple voices each of which play the melody differently.

  • '' Polyphony '' is music with several parts, each independent but related and each as important as the others - none of them is merely Accompaniment .

  • '' Homophony '' is music in which the top part has a dominant melody and other parts are subservient to it, moving in the same, or nearly the same, rhythm.

  • '' Monody '' is 17th century Italian song with a dominant melody and a separate accompaniment.


Note that none of these terms accurately describes the majority of western music made today, featuring a melody and rhythmically free accompaniment; in homophony the accompaniment is not rhythmically free, and monody is typically used in a historically specific way.

A Simultaneity is more than one complete musical texture occurring at the same time, rather than in Succession .

A more recent type of texture first used by György Ligeti is Micropolyphony . Other textures include Homorhythmic , Polythematic , Polyrhythmic , Onomatopoeic , compound, and mixed or composite textures (Corozine 2002, p.34).


Source

  • Corozine, Vince (2002). ''Arranging Music for the Real World: Classical and Commercial Aspects''. ISBN 0786649615.



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