MUSI 1F10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Brandenburg Concertos, Homorhythm, Heterophony
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Texture is the relationship between different instruments/voices that sound simultaneously. Voice refers to a single line of music (part) Texture determines how busy the music sounds. Texture determines how the listener"s attention is directed. Kyrie (holdegard: dies iraw (day of wrath) Heterophony; melody presented in plain and ornamented forms simultaneously. Polyphony; several independent voices sounding simultaneously: jesu, joy of man"s desiring, brandenburg concerto no. Homophony; one voice takes the lead, others accompany: common in popular music, america. Homorhythm; all voices have the same rhythm: america. Imitation (different voices enter with same melodic idea, possibly on different pitches) Counterpoint (adj. contrapuntal) all voices have melodic interest. Melodic idea can be manipulated in other ways (retrograde; fancy way to say backwards, inversion; flip the melody upside down, augmentation) Changing textures: hallelujah homorhythmic for emphasis, for the lord god omnipotent monophonic for clarity, when text is combined, texture becomes polyphonic (satb, final hallelujah is homorhythmic.
