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A term used to denote music consisting of one melodic line, with no accompaniment or other voice parts.
A modern term for the solo singing that flourished in Italy in the 17th century to recreate the power of ancient Greek music.
Can closely follow the meaning and rhythm of a text with its flexibility:
1. Is syllabic and recitative-like .
2. Can be more highly embellished than what is possible in polyphanic song.
Monophonic music of the Eastern and Western Christian Liturgy.
“But there hung in the air something of the state of the human heart during the last decades of the fifteenth century, a hysteria out of the dying Middle Ages…”
“There was a glockenspiel, on a childish version of which we both had probably practiced tapping out ‘Twinkle twinkle little star’”
“But even if it was very bold that he wrote – was it in any sense “free” music, music for one and all? That it was not. It was the music of someone what had never escaped; it was – down to its most arcane, ingeniously whimsical intricacy, to every breath and echo of the crypt emerging from it, characteristic music – the music of Kaisersaschern.”
“I’ll not speak of her here, but of her prototype, with whom little Adrian was on friendly terms with because she loved to sing and used to arrange little singing lessons for us children. …This creature still smelling of her animals would go at it with abandon… If we then sang along, she would drop to the third, move as needed down to the fifth or sixth, and leaving the treble to us, ostentatiously and ear-splittingly hold to her harmony.”
“…and that idea was associated with certain discussions we had once about art’s destiny, about it emancipation from the cult, its cultural secularization – which on the one hand had proved beneficial, on the other gloomily onerous. It was quite clear to me: His desire, motivated by both personal and professional prospects, to reduce music to the level it had once held within the worshiping community during what he considered a happier age had contributed to his choice of profession.”