2021年4月23日 · Just look for homophonic and polyphonic elements in it. You'll generally find both. Also, be clear over your definition of 'polyphony'. It doesn't always mean several INDEPENDENT voices. A homophonic SATB note-for-note harmonisation of a hymn tune could be called polyphonic - it has 4 voices!

2017年8月5日 · A polyphonic texture refers to a web of autonomous melodies, each of which contributes to the texture and the harmony of the piece but is a separate and independent strand in the fabric, so to speak. An example is the section in the "Hallelujah" chorus where the choir sings "And he shall reign for ever and ever."

2016年12月26日 · A good example of polyphonic songs would be a 'singing in the round' situation, where each voice has it's own line it is following, and not the same melody, simultaneously. With regards to music without lyrics the principles are just the same, polyphonic music would have multiple melody lines; homophonic: multiple parts all moving at the same time.

2014年7月21日 · A polyphonic texture does not rely upon a series of "block-chords" (a homophonic texture) to reveal the harmonic progression of the music, but it still has a harmonic framework. Although independent to a certain degree (for instance, in terms of rhythm, contour, motif, intervallic character) these lines are still tied together by the overall ...

I believe counterpoint is a narrower term (all counterpoint is polyphonic but not all polyphony is contrapuntal). Contrapuntal polyphony emerged in the baroque era and so renaissance polyphony is not referred to as counterpoint. –

2019年2月25日 · Polyphonic accompaniments: look up basso continuo and compare with fugue. Then look up Bach's the Art of Fugue and Goldberg Variations and examine how the bass part is used. Polyphonic harmony: compare the music of Palestrina with Bach's Well Tempered Clavier. How does either style fit into the major/minor harmonic system?

It is a homophonic setting, where to a given melody the other voices are less or more homophonic accompaning in chords and harmony the main tune. That means there is no great deviation in the rhythme, the voices are led in the same rhythm as the main tune, note by note filling the chord notes to complete the harmony.

While there are simpler organal accompaniments in 9th and 10th century Gregorian chant, the more florid "Gothic" Kyrie leans far closer to the polyphonic side of the spectrum. Keep in mind, at the time it was composed, plain vs. polyphonic was not a hard and fast division between genres, but rather just a simple matter of whether the cantors ...

2023年12月28日 · Monody is a specific style that arose in the early 17th century. It is essentially homophonic. There was a clearly dominant melodic part, as in homophony (and counter to polyphony), and the accompaniment was largely chordal (though it might contain polyphonic elements within itself).

2020年8月3日 · @Aaron thanks. I was inspired by Pachelbel's Canon, but obviously replacing the harmonic relationships between different periods in the melody with heterophonic relationships. (And this was partly triggered by my initial misreading of the question as asking about homophonic canons rather than heterophonic.