Monophonic
What Monophonic means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Describes music in which only one note is heard at a time – a single melodic line.
A single line, contrasted with textures that have two or more parts.
Topics that use Monophonic
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Sonority and texture (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Accompaniment and harmony
- Basso continuo
- Changes of sonority
- Figured bass realisation
- Homophonic
- Imitation and contrapuntal writing
- Listening and identification
- Monophonic, homophonic and polyphonic textures
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