| His secular vocal music, monodic and polyphonic, is mainly contained in five volumes of Musiche, and ten volumes of madrigals and villanellas. |
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| It was monodic, and was composed in a variety of lyric metres in two or four-line stanzas, including the alcaic stanza, named after him. |
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| Although this work was written for a monodic instrument, the harmonic complexity can be felt. |
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| This miracle, taking the main two classical ways of the monodic song and of the polyphony, allows us to appreciate a music which, even if it has much evolved since the origins, keeps an authentic vigor. |
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| My work as a composer was inspired by the subtleties of the melodic development in this completely monodic music, which has no harmonic restrictions. |
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| Obaudite me starts with monodic declamation by one of the tenors, followed by short sections in falsobordone, homophonic, and imitative textures. |
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| Messiaen's musical response to all these questions, as it were, is a monodic quotation of the Alleluia from the Feast of All Saints. |
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| Eventually it precipitated the total abandonment of traditional polyphony about 1600 in the monodic experiments of the Florentine Camerata, a group of aristocratic connoisseurs seeking to emulate the Greek drama of antiquity. |
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| At the same time, Mediterranean Europe abounded in monodic music, and the peak of this art was reflected in works such as the collection of Cantigas de Santa Maria, and Italian and French estampies. |
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| The former often marshal a curious argument, that because the early monodic sources did not indicate any rhythm, no rhythm was therefore intended. |
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