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- How do you describe texture in music?
- What is homophonic texture?
- What is monophonic homophonic and polyphonic?
- What is an example of polyphonic music?
How do you describe texture in music?
In music, texture is how the tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials are combined in a musical composition, determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece. ... For example, a thick texture contains many 'layers' of instruments. One of these layers could be a string section or another brass.
What is homophonic texture?
A musical texture consisting of one melody and an accompaniment that supports it. Homophony is a musical texture of several parts in which one melody predominates; the other parts may be either simple chords or a more elaborate accompaniment pattern.
What is monophonic homophonic and polyphonic?
In describing texture as musical lines or layers woven together vertically or horizontally, we might think about how these qualities are evident in three broad types of texture: monophonic (one sound), polyphonic (many sounds) and homophonic (the same sound).
What is an example of polyphonic music?
Examples of Polyphony
Rounds, canons, and fugues are all polyphonic. (Even if there is only one melody, if different people are singing or playing it at different times, the parts sound independent.) Much late Baroque music is contrapuntal, particularly the works of J.S. Bach.
