Chapter 5: Musical Texture
Study Plan
Key Points
- Texture refers to the interweaving of the melodic lines with harmony in music.
- The simplest texture is monophony, or single-voiced music without accompaniment.
- Heterophony refers to multiple voices elaborating the same melody at the same time.
- Polyphony describes a many-voiced texture based on counterpoint—one line set against another.
- Homophony occurs when one melodic voice is prominent over the accompanying lines, or voices.
- Imitation—when a melodic idea is presented in one voice, then restated in another—is a common unifying technique in polyphony; canons and rounds are two types of strictly imitative works.
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