monody

Monody made it easy to tell a story because the words could be heard clearly.

This represented a move towards the new style of monody.

The musical style which developed from these early experiments was called monody.

From this, it was only a small step to fully-fledged monody.

She is the earliest known published female composer of monody.

They liked monody, which means a tune with a simple accompaniment.

The term arose in the 16th century along with the aforementioned styles and monody.

What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!

The rise of instrumental monody did not have its roots exclusively in vocal music.

He retained several musicians in his service and encouraged the art of monody or solo song.

He was one of the most famous and distinguished composers of monody.

Anacreon's verses were primarily in the form of monody rather than for a chorus.

The Camerata's view on counterpoint and monody did not rise to prominence without opposition.

The term itself is a recent invention of scholars: no composer of the 17th century ever called a piece a monody.

Given barely enough notes to ensure their existence, his late pieces frequently lapse into monody, then silence.

Smaller scale pieces are often difficult florid monody of the Caccini new music variety.

But there is a considerable difference between this and the monody of Caccini or Monteverdi.

An underlying prerequisite for the creation of opera proper was the practice of monody.

Psellos also compiled a laudatory monody on Andronikos after the latter's death.

His main literary work is the "Monody on the Capture of Constantinople".

In classical antiquity, it is usually performed by a chorus, but some examples seem intended for an individual voice (monody).

In the late sixteenth-century, composers attempted to recreate Greek drama using a style called monody.

Daniel Charles has described him as the person who decimated monody by the demultiplication of the acoustic spectrum.

This led to him being one of the first English composers to introduce monody and recitative to England.

In poetry, the term monody has become specialized to refer to a poem in which one person laments another's death.