a musical composition for 2 or more parts with a single melody line, all other parts serving as accompaniments
Homophony
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Homophonic
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a musical composition for 2 or more parts with a single melody line, all other parts serving as accompaniments
Monody
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a musical composition with only a single melody line
Monophonic
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a musical composition that has only a single melody line
Monophony
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a musical composition that has only a single melody line
Superius
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the upper, or higher, voice or melody in a musical composition of two or more parts
System
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notation of a line of music including all the parts and voices involved, presented in a group of two or more staves which are…
Authentic mode
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a melody is written in an authentic mode when all, or almost all the notes lie above the final
Basso ostinato
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ground bass, a pattern repeated several times over in the bass line to accompany one or more ever varying upper parts