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  2. Paraphony - Wikipedia

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    This does not explain how that 'new (commercial) meaning' of "paraphony" that in the context of electronic music instruments in 1977 has been turned around significantly into the 21st century from multiple complete polyphonic and monophonic sounds that can be layered in unison to a modern reinterpretation that focuses only on the ability of an ...

  3. Polyphony and monophony in instruments - Wikipedia

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    A monophonic synthesizer or monosynth is a synthesizer that produces only one note at a time, making it smaller and cheaper than a polyphonic synthesizer which can play multiple notes at once. This does not necessarily refer to a synthesizer with a single oscillator ; the Minimoog , for example, has three oscillators which are settable in ...

  4. Monophony - Wikipedia

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    This melody for the traditional song "Pop Goes the Weasel" is monophonic as long as it is performed without chordal accompaniment. [1]Play ⓘ. In music, monophony is the simplest of musical textures, consisting of a melody (or "tune"), typically sung by a single singer or played by a single instrument player (e.g., a flute player) without accompanying harmony or chords.

  5. List of classical music genres - Wikipedia

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    Cantiga – Monophonic song of Spanish or Portuguese origin, often about religious themes or courtly love. Conductus – Latin sacred song, monophonic or polyphonic non-liturgical vocal composition. Descant – Form where one singer performed a fixed melody while others improvised harmonious and melodically independent lines.

  6. Periods in Western art history - Wikipedia

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    This is a chronological list of periods in Western art history. An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist, groups of artists or art movement.

  7. Polyphony - Wikipedia

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    Polyphony (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ f ə n i / pə-LIF-ə-nee) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords ().

  8. Timeline for invention in the arts - Wikipedia

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    Cubism revolutionized western art and influenced other art forms like music and literature. 1912 – Collage was invented by Picasso with his "Still Life with Chair Caning". Attaching a material from the real world that was not ever used in high art into a painting violated what was previously considered the integrity of the artwork.

  9. Timeline of art - Wikipedia

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    1974 in art – Death of Adolph Gottlieb, William C. Seitz, For the first time in art history, the chemogram invented by Josef H. Neumann closed the separation of the painterly background and the photographic layer in a symbiosis of painting and real photographic perspective.