I'm open to suggestions from anyone else who has grown tired of monodic rants from robotic, or perhaps robot, commenters. From Wordnik.com. [Finding the limit on Congress's war powers.] Reference
Hellenistic and Roman times, “lyric poetry” meant poetry, whether monodic or choric, (originally) sung; it did not include elegy or iambics. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Melic poems were divided into two distinct forms: choral lyrics, which were sung by a chorus of up to fifty voices, and monodic lyrics, composed for solo voice. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry Pages - 98.06.10] Reference
As to why the clef disappeared, the answer is lengthy, certainly involves the first acceptance of women as public performers, the rise in popularity of the monodic style which de-emphasized middle voices, and makes for a fascinating scholarly debate. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
Polyphonic music of every sort had now to go for a while; monodic music was coming in. From Wordnik.com. [Haydn] Reference
Chinese music has always been monodic, and they use a great variety of melodic shadings composed of intervals of small fractions of a step. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
The dates of the production of these works show us that they were not as old as the movement toward real monodic song, and it is certain that in. From Wordnik.com. [Some Forerunners of Italian Opera] Reference
They monodic jaded tactual orlando fl hotel and nibbler diodon in baldrick baccivorous alternate cuculidae thunk in the wheatworm bar nagger desynchronisation in abscess. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
They seem richer in themes than the others, partly because the themes are bigger, partly because they are more perfectly adapted to monodic, harmonic treatment, and out of every bar something is made. From Wordnik.com. [Haydn] Reference
This habit of thought -- for this is what it amounts to -- is not natural to the present generation, since nearly all our music is more or less monodic (having one leading melody and an accompaniment.). From Wordnik.com. [The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations] Reference
In a letter of June 25, 1594, Gesualdo indicated he was writing music for the three women in the concerto delle donne; however, it is probable that some of the music he wrote, for example that in the newly developing monodic and/or concertato styles, has not survived. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
At the same time the evidence is conclusive that the madrigal was acquiring general popularity as a form of dramatic music, and the madrigal drama reached the zenith of its glory at the very moment when its fate was preparing in the experiments of Galilei and others in the new monodic style destined to become the basis of modern. From Wordnik.com. [Some Forerunners of Italian Opera] Reference
All their music was monodic -- one-voiced. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
Origin and meaning of polyphony -- monodic and homophonic -- canonic imitation -- chords as incidents -- variety and unity -- early. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
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