monophonic
Speech parts
1. monophonic - Adjective
2. monophonic - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Single-voiced; having but one part; as, a monophonic composition; -- opposed to polyphonic.
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The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.
And we would play together, like fine musicians should, And it would sound like music, and the music would sound good. But in real life I'm stuck with that same old formula, me and my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.
As the technology improved, polyphonic and often orchestral soundtracks replaced simple monophonic melodies starting in the late 1980s and the soundtracks to popular games such as the Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy series began to be released separately.
Analog TV started off with monophonic sound, and later evolved to stereophonic sound with two independent audio signal channels.
He concludes that Debussy's achievement was the synthesis of monophonic based "melodic tonality" with harmonies, albeit different from those of "harmonic tonality".
During the 1970s to early 1980s, the monophonic Minimoog became once the most widely used synthesizer at that time in both popular and electronic art music.