The New Harvard Dictionary of Music¶
Randel, D. M. (1986). The New Harvard Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press.
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- Monophony
- Monophony is historically the oldest texture and the starting point of Western music-theoretical taxonomy
This sourceStandard reference dictionary whose 'Monophony' and 'Texture' entries define monophony as a single unaccompanied melodic line and place it as the primary, simplest category of the Western music-theoretical texture classification. Reference-work treatment of musical texture that names monophony, homophony, polyphony and heterophony as the texture categories and defines monophony as the single-line, unaccompanied pole.
- Monophony is historically the oldest texture and the starting point of Western music-theoretical taxonomy
- Strophic Form
- The form is the dominant structural type in folk song, hymnody, lullabies, sea shanties, and blues traditions worldwide
This sourceDictionary entries treating traditional folk ballads and the hymn (a single repeated melody) as strophic.
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“Nonpsalmodic forms include the strophic form of the hymn, in which a single melody is repeated”
- The form is the dominant structural type in folk song, hymnody, lullabies, sea shanties, and blues traditions worldwide
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