“homophonic”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

homophonic

释义

homophonic, a. Mus.|hɒməʊˈfɒnɪk|
[f. as prec. + -ic.]
1. Producing, or consisting of, sounds of the same pitch; unisonous, in unison. Said of ancient music; opp. to antiphonic.
1881Broadhouse Mus. Acoustics 342 Helmholtz in his chapter on ‘The Tonality of Homophonic Music’ enumerates five scales which differ more or less from our modern major scale.
2. loosely. Said of music characterized by the predominance of one part or melody, to which the rest merely furnish harmonies; more correctly called monophonic or monodic. Opp. to polyphonic.
1879E. Prout in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 55 The homophonic rather than the polyphonic style predominates in the music [allemande], which frequently consists of a highly figurate melody, with a comparatively simple accompaniment.1885Athenæum 7 Mar. 319/2 [Bach's] compositions are polyphonic rather than homophonic.
3. Philol. = homophonous a. 2.
1942[see bimorphemic a.].

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