Musical texture

Texture is...

• How loud or soft the music is played

• The number of layers in music and the relationship between the layers

• Combinations of long and short notes and rests

• The main idea that is a single line of notes

Monophonic Texture is...

• A texture with a melody and harmony

• How fast or slow the music is played

• A texture with many melodic lines playing at the same time

• A texture with a single layer; one melodic line

Homophonic texture is...

• A texture with a melody and harmony

• A texture with a single layer; one melodic line

• A texture with many melodic lines playing at the same time

• Two or more instruments or voices playing or singing the same pitches

Polyphonic texture is...

• A texture with a single layer; one melodic line

• Two or more instruments or voices playing or singing the same pitches

• A texture with many melodic lines playing at the same time

• A texture with a melody and harmony

Unison is...

• Two or more pitches at the same time that support the melody

• Two or more instruments or voices playing or singing the same pitches at the same time

• Two or more people singing the same words at the same time

• A texture with a melody and harmony

What is musical texture?

• Two or more instruments of voices heard

• Different musicians playing

• Differences in the layers of sounds

Which texture needs chords?

• Polyphonic

• Homophonic

• Heterophonic

Monophonic texture has counterpoints and harmonies

• True

• False

In monophonic music there can be no rhythmic accompaniment.

• True

• False

Two students playing the same recorder melody is in which texture?

• Heterophony

• Polyphony

• Monophony