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What does homophonic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (linguistics) Having the same sound; being homophones.
  2. (music) Having a single, accompanied, melodic line; not polyphonic.
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The fugato is interrupted at its height by a homophonic statement by the entire ensemble, first in a single line and then in a huge two-voice version.
Settings are for three or four voices, mainly syllabic and homophonic, with the melody in the top voice.
First, there are languages where the apparent complementizer — 'that', in English — is not homophonic with a demonstrative.
I also encourage students to focus on how the melody and harmony interrelate, particularly in homophonic textures.
Early in the century the madrigal more closely resembled the simple, homophonic or chordal style of the frottola.
The book ignores such words as ball, bound, and plane, which are both homophonic and homographic.

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