Crossword clues for monophonic
monophonic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monophonic \Mon`o*phon"ic\, a. [Mono- + Gr. ? a voice.]
(Mus.) Single-voiced; having but one part; as, a monophonic composition; -- opposed to polyphonic.
Of or relating to a system for recording and reproducing sound, which has only one sound channel; also called monaural or mono. It contrasts with stereophonic (or stereo), quadraphonic, or surround-sound, which have two or more channels, and can thus reproduce the effect of the sound coming from more than one direction.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
of recordings, broadcasts, etc., "not stereo, having only one output signal," 1958, coined to be an opposite of stereophonic; from mono- + -phonic, from Greek phone "sound, voice" (see fame (n.)).
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of sound reproduction English) having a single channel; monaural (compare stereophonic) 2 (context music English) having a single melodic line and no harmony (compare polyphonic) 3 (context orthography English) having simple one-to-one mapping between letters and phonemes
WordNet
adj. designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel [syn: mono, single-channel]
consisting of a single melodic line [ant: polyphonic]
Usage examples of "monophonic".
It is written in monophonic rather than in polyphonic style, thus differing from the madrigal and glee.
Occasionally, mahogany tables and chairs interrupted the monophonic atmosphere, their dark, resonant tones adding harmony and a sense of structure.
Whatever the troubadours and minnesingers may have done toward establishing a metrical melodic form of monophonic character was soon obliterated by the swift popularity of part singing and the immense vogue of the secular songs of the polyphonic composers.
They at any rate perceived that the vital fact concerning the new monophonic style was that the melody alone demanded individual independence, while the other parts could not, as in polyphony, ask for equal suffrage, but must sink themselves in the solid and concrete structure of the supporting chord.
Why celebrate the artistic perfection of the monophonic novel when Dostoyevsky, an innovative and original genius, was constructing the polyphonic novel with its infinite possibilities?
The monophonic has been done to the death by a whole tribe of shallow charlatans, who, under the pretence that they wrote in a true piano style, literally debauched several generations of students.