Monody
(I) A song for a single voice unaccompanied. (2) In modern usage it denotes a composition in which the melody is all-important, the remaining parts simply accompaniment; called also Homophony and Monophony, -the antithesis of Polyphony.
How to say it as well as what it means: every Italian, German and French musical term of 1896, respelled phonetically for the student.
(I) A song for a single voice unaccompanied. (2) In modern usage it denotes a composition in which the melody is all-important, the remaining parts simply accompaniment; called also Homophony and Monophony, -the antithesis of Polyphony.