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What does homophony mean?

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Noun
  1. (music) a texture in which two or more parts move together in harmony, the relationship between them creating chords.
  2. The quality of being homophonous.
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The solo violin with orchestral accompaniment is an example of this type of texture: homophony.
Note that I'm not denying that languages can and do differ in their relative amounts of homophony, word-sense ambiguity and lexical category ambiguity.
This equivocation plays across three registers,as Lacan specifies again in 'L'étourdit': homophony, grammar and logic.
Although a few exchanges between instruments are heard, Debussy prefers to exploit the principal part, colored by the harmonies of others, or a genuine homophony between voices.
Being raised in a Lutheran tradition, my vocal writing is largely chorale style homophony contrasting with traditional contrapuntal textures.
His homophony, grounded in pre-twentieth-century melody-with-accompaniment ideals, largely excludes motivic counterpoint.

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