Monophony

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
For other uses, see Monophony (disambiguation).
This melody for the traditional song "Pop Goes the Weasel" is monophonic as long as it is performed without chordal accompaniment.[1] Playⓘ

In

polyphonic
melody lines (two or more independent lines).

In the

plainchant (a well-known example is Gregorian chant), were monophonic. Even into the twenty-first century, songwriters still often write songs that intersperse sections using monophony, heterophony (two singers or instrumentalists doing varied versions of the same melody together), polyphony (two or more singers or instrumentalists playing independent melodic lines at the same time), homophony (a melody accompanied by chords), or monody
(a single melodic line with instrumental accompaniment) elements throughout the melody to create different atmospheres and styles. Monophony may not have underlying rhythmic textures, and must consist of only a single melodic line.

According to

compositional principle."[2]

Pange Lingua sung
This is the plainchant version (mode iii) of Pange Lingua sung to its traditional Latin text.
Problems playing this file? See media help.
The Four Ogives
Erik Satie The Four Ogives. Their calm, slow melodies are built up from paired phrases reminiscent of plainchant.
Problems playing this file? See media help.
Liber Usualis, Antiphon "O Adonai II: Great Advent Antiphon"
A monophonic Antiphon from the Gregorian Chant collection Liber Usualis
Problems playing this file? See media help.

Western singing

Plainchant

The earliest recorded Christian monophony was

parallel fifths
, which could still be considered monophonic; however, by the 11th century the organum had developed a style called "free organum" in which the voices were more independent, evolving into a polyphonic tradition.

Gregorian chant of the Kyrie (plainsong)

Plainchant styles

Guido d'Arezzo
invented a more modern musical notation system that the exact notes of the melodies were preserved.

Troubador song monophony

Most troubadour songs were monophonic. Troubadour songs were written from 1100–1350 and they were usually poems about chivalry or courtly love with the words set to a melody. Aristocratic troubadours and trouvères typically played in courtly performances for kings, queens, and countesses. Poets and composers in the 14th century produced many songs which can be seen as extensions of the Provençal troubador tradition, such as secular monophonic lais and virelais. Jehan de Lescurel (or Jehannot de l'Escurel), a poet and composer from northern French from the Trouvère style also wrote monophonic songs in the style of virelais, ballades, rondeaux and diz entés. Minnesänger were similar to the French style but in Middle High German.[4]

Geisslerlieder or Flagellant songs

A tradition of

Laude spirituale songs were used in the 13th and 17th century by flagellants, as recorded in the medieval chronicle Chronicon Hugonis sacerdotis de Rutelinga (1349).[5]

Lutheran church chorale

Monophony was the first type of texture in the Lutheran Church. A well-known example is Martin Luther's hymn "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" ("A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"), written as a monophonic tune sometime between 1527 and 1529. Many of Luther's hymns were later harmonized for multiple voices by other composers, and were also used in other polyphonic music such as the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Monophony with instrumental doubling

See Voicing (music)#Doubling

DeLone[6] more loosely defines monophony as "passages, movements, or sections in which notes sound alone, despite instrumental doubling" even if "such passages may involve several instruments or voices."

Music of India

See also:
Music history of India

drones
, sometimes accompanied by percussion and other accompaniment.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0-13-049346-5
    .
  2. ISBN 0-19-816540-4
    .
  3. ^ texte, Glarean (1488-1563) Auteur du (1547). Dodecachordon.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ crusades article template Music of the Crusades Era
  5. ^ Medieval secular song: Introduction Archived 2007-03-15 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ISBN 0-13-049346-5
    .

Further reading

External links
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Monophony&oldid=1119551424"