Monophonic vs Cantiga - What's the difference?
monophonic | cantiga |
(of sound reproduction) having a single channel; monaural (compare stereophonic)
(music) having a single melodic line and no harmony (compare polyphonic)
(orthography) having simple one-to-one mapping between letters and phonemes
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A medieval monophonic song, sometimes religious, characteristic of the Galician-Portuguese lyric.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 1, author=Allan Kozinn, title=Juilliard’s New Semester Starts With New Music, work=New York Times
, passage=The most immediately engaging work here was Roberto Sierra’s “Güell Concert” (2006). Mr. Sierra uses a medieval Spanish cantiga as the work’s motto, but leaps quickly into modern rhythmic and harmonic complexities. }}
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As an adjective monophonic
is (of sound reproduction) having a single channel; monaural (compare stereophonic).As a noun cantiga is
a medieval monophonic song, sometimes religious, characteristic of the galician-portuguese lyric.monophonic
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(wikipedia monophonic)Adjective
(head)cantiga
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