Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being homophonic.
- noun Homophonic music.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sameness of sound.
- noun In music: In ancient music, unison, or music in unison: opposed to antiphony.
- noun In modern music, monody; monophony: opposed to polyphony.
- noun Also
homophone .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Sameness of sound.
- noun Sameness of sound; unison.
- noun Plain harmony, as opposed to
polyphony . SeeHomophonous .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music a
texture in which two or moreparts move together inharmony , the relationship between them creatingchords . - noun The
quality of beinghomophonous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun part music with one dominant voice (in a homophonic style)
- noun the same pronunciation for words of different origins
Etymologies
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Examples
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He based this on the homophony and homography of the first singular, and 'homophony' of the 2nd singular pronoun.
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However, despite their surface homophony, the underlying phonemic structure of “set” and “said” are sufficiently different as to render them very unlikely candidates for human confusion.
Matthew Yglesias » The Gingrich Doctrine and the 21st Century 2009
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Akkadian also inherited homophony from Sumerian, the capacity of different signs to represent the same sound.
The Whisperers John Connolly 2010
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The word Cicero uses, lectulus, meant not just a bed for sleeping, but one for conversation and study — perhaps because of its partial homophony with legere, lectus, "gather by picking" (like flowers) and "read."
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Akkadian also inherited homophony from Sumerian, the capacity of different signs to represent the same sound.
The Whisperers John Connolly 2010
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In most well-written homophony, the parts that are not melody may still have a lot of melodic interest.
Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009
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Strict homophony prevails in the motets for the Elevation of the Host.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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The use of a cantus firmus was not essential, while big intervals in the melodic lines, chromaticism and homophony in crucial places were all allowed to help the understanding of the words.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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The majority of Pedro de Cristo's surviving works are, however, written for four or five voices and in a predominantly imitative style although homophony is the basic texture in the settings of responsories and psalms, and short homorhythmic passages are common in other works.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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These consorts show a rich vein of imagination, contrasting polyphony with homophony, and simple diatonic with chromatic passages, so that the contrapuntal devices act as a backdrop to the expression of intimate, fluctuating emotions.
Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009
oroboros commented on the word homophony
The longest common word using typewriter letters for the right hand. See also polyphony.
--Chris Cole, Wordplay (See comment under "Wordplay List".)
May 25, 2008