MUS110H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Oboe, Countertenor, Mezzo-Soprano
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Texture: a term used when referring to the sound aspects of a musical structure. Music for a single voice or part, for example plainchant and unaccompanied solo song. ". 100 people singing the same notes in 3 different octaves is still monophonic. Music in which several simultaneous voice or instrumental parts are combined contrapuntally" in historical terms, polyphonic era is defined as. Counterpoint describes the combination of simultaneously sounding musical lines according to a system of rules. ". A term used to describe music in which one voice or part is clearly melodic, the others accompanimental and chiefly chordal. The term homophony has also been used to describe part-writing where all the parts move in the same rhythm; a more precise term for this is homorhythm. ". Heterophony: used to describe the simultaneous sounding of a melody with an elaborated variant of it, and also the quasi-canonic presentation of the same or similar melodies in two or more vocal or instrumental lines.
