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/ˌmɑnəˈfɑnɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
- consisting of a single melodic line
- designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel
How To Use monophonic In A Sentence
- Harmonization thus becomes not a means in itself, bur another aspect of the ‘perpetual variation’ process of an essentially monophonic melody.
- This paper attempts to interpret the phenomenon from the perspective of the nature of the languages. The pictographic and monophonic nature of the Chinese language seems to be the underlying cause.
- This is the appropriate choice, as Chaplin always made his films in monophonic sound.
- The monophonic chants exhibit considerable variety, both in the alternation of participants – priest, readers, cantor, soloists and choir – and, particularly, in musical, texture: the delivery of text on a single pitch, then more ornamental recitation patterns – formulas specific to the beginning, middle and end of a phrase – and finally actual melodies. Archive 2009-04-01
- In this varied musical life there appeared, with the cooperation and under the direction of Alfonso, the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of more than four hundred monophonic songs. Archive 2009-07-01
- Before the 10th or 11th century, all Western music was [[monophony | monophonic]], or consisting of only one voice, which was usually a liturgical [[Gregorian chant | chant]]. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
- The songs are monophonic, with harmony taking the form of a drone.
- Dialogue, effects, and music were all clean and generally distortion free, but the track sounds monophonic and is localized to the center speaker.
- This paper attempts to interpret the phenomenon from the perspective of the nature of the languages. The pictographic and monophonic nature of the Chinese language seems to be the underlying cause.
- The monophonic sound of each mix gives the viewer a real sense of what it must have been like to have experienced these shorts for the first time in the 1920s and 1930s.