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Homophony




"If ye love me," composed in 1549. The voices move together using the same rhythm, and the relationship between them creates chords: the excerpt begins and ends with an F Major Triad . To listen, hear music sample below.]]
In , homophony indicated music in which a single melody is performed by two or more voices in Unison or Octaves , i.e. monophony with multiple voices.

Homophony as a term first appeared in English with Charles Burney in 1776 , emphasizing the concord of harmonized melody. What is monophony, polyphony, homophony, monody etc.?


HISTORY


Homophony in Western music


  filename If ye love meogg
  title Tallis' "If ye love me"
  description Beginning of Tallis' "If ye love me," see notation above