Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the same sound.
- adjective Having or characterized by a single melodic line with accompaniment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
homophonous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic.
- adjective Now used for plain harmony, note against note, as opposed to
polyphonic harmony, in which the several parts move independently, each with its own melody. - adjective Expressing the same sound by a different combination of letters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective linguistics having the same
sound ; beinghomophones - adjective music having a single, accompanied,
melodic line ; notpolyphonic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a single melodic line with accompaniment
- adjective having the same sound
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Naming "a sea turtle" to top management alone is not enough, says Ng, referring to the term a homophonic pun for English-speaking, Western-trained Chinese who have returned home.
Tech's Top Dealmakers: Granite Global Ventures' Thomas Ng Granite Global Ventures' Thomas Ng Patricia Huang 2006
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As a composer he must be considered as the first of what we might call the homophonic writers, -- that is to say, he was the father of the modern free style in which the normal form of the musical idea is that of a melody and an accompaniment, as distinguished from the style of
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But when that approach failed, they figured that the code was what cryptographers call a homophonic cipher - a substitution code that does not have a straightforward correspondence between the original and encoded information.
NYT > Home Page By JOHN MARKOFF 2011
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Instead, they seek to render the sounds of the original language into English characters, so that what we are seeing, or hearing, are really transliterations, or so-called "homophonic" translations.
Tablet Magazine 2009
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Instead, they seek to render the sounds of the original language into English characters, so that what we are seeing, or hearing, are really transliterations, or so-called "homophonic" translations.
Tablet Magazine 2009
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Instead, they seek to render the sounds of the original language into English characters, so that what we are seeing, or hearing, are really transliterations, or so-called "homophonic" translations.
Tablet Magazine 2009
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Plain old 4-voice homophonic choral arrangements of hymns.
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How dare you compare the tiny and purely homophonic Gregorian melodies with the gigantic developments of music in recent times?
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Spent time in Rome picking up the Italian style; his choral writing is compact and, according to Grove, "largely homophonic" (which may explain my Brian Wilson fixation).
Was (Not Was) Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Once you can do this with homophonic works, try playing from an open score of chamber music – 3 lines – play 2, sing/croak/burp – whatever you can do, this is not the Met auditions – the other line.
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