Roberto Strappafelci wrote: >Ed Zubrow wrote: > >>Can anyone explain the difference between homophony (homophonic music) and >>monody (monodic music)? > >Monody, everyone used to play it, but they hadn't a clue until someone came >out with poliphony. "So what the hell have we been playing all this time?" >they asked. "Monody", someone replied with a brand new word. I almost never get my definitons straight but I thought that *monody* is a dominant melodic voice over a harmonic *accompaniment* (well...) whereas *polyphony* is when each *voice* has their own rhythmic line (unlike in *homphony*). >Homophony is when all the voices (or instruments, or voices and >instruments) sing (or play, or sing and play) the same note (or the octave) >at the same moment. ... *the same note or the octave*?? I thought this was *unisono*. As long as the *rhythm* is the same for each *voice* it's *homophony* or so I've always been led to believe. Oh well, I'm probably messing up... Philip