| 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. |
| Although this work was written for a monodic instrument, the harmonic complexity can be felt. |
| 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. |
| His secular vocal music, monodic and polyphonic, is mainly contained in five volumes of Musiche, and ten volumes of madrigals and villanellas. |
| Obaudite me starts with monodic declamation by one of the tenors, followed by short sections in falsobordone, homophonic, and imitative textures. |
| 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. |
