Usually means: Single melody, no harmonic accompaniment.
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  1. monophony: Merriam-Webster
  2. monophony: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. monophony: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. monophony: Collins English Dictionary
  5. monophony: Vocabulary.com
  6. monophony: Wordnik
  7. monophony: Wiktionary
  8. monophony: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. monophony: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. monophony: Dictionary.com
  11. Monophony (disambiguation), Monophony: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. monophony: Rhymezone
  13. monophony: FreeDictionary.org
  14. monophony: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. monophony: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (monophony)

▸ noun:  (music) The characteristic of a piece that has only a primary melody and no secondary melody or accompaniment.

Similar:
monotone, melodylessness, plainsong, atonality, minimalism, nonaccompaniment, instrumental, a cappella, nonaccent, undernote, more...

Opposite:
polyphony, harmony, counterpoint

Phrases:
Polyphony and monophony in instruments, more...

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Similar:
monotone, melodylessness, plainsong, atonality, minimalism, nonaccompaniment, instrumental, a cappella, nonaccent, undernote, more...

Opposite:
polyphony, harmony, counterpoint

Phrases:
Polyphony and monophony in instruments, more...



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