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Texture describes how layers of sound within a piece of music interact. Imagine that a piece of spaghetti is a melody line. One strand of spaghetti by itself is a single melody, as in a monophonic texture.
Texture is one of the basic elements of music. When you describe the texture of a piece of music, you are describing how much is going on in the music at any given moment. For example, the texture of the music might be thick or thin, or it may have many or few layers.
There are four types of textures that appear in music, Monophony, Polyphony, Homophony, and Heterophony. These four textures appear in music from around the world.
- Monophony is a musical texture that is made of one-single melodic line. This ancient musical texture is found in the few examples that remain of Ancient Greek music, such as The Epitaph of Seikilos, which you may listen to and see the score in the video above.
- Polyphony is a musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous melodic lines. The earliest polyphonic music was created simply by having musicians play or sing two different songs simultaneously.
- Homophony is a musical texture in which a main melodic line is supported by one or more additional musical lines that add harmonic support.
- Heterophony, is found in musical cultures from around the world. However, it is less commonly heard in Classical Western music than the others. It is prevalent in the traditional music, especially that of Middle East, Asia, and European folk traditions.
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