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monophonic, a. Mus.|mɒnəʊˈfɒnɪk|
[Formed as monophone + -ic.]
1. = homophonic 1, 2.
1885Cassell's Encycl. Dict. 1895Funk's Stand. Dict. 1920E. Walker in F. S. Marvin Recent Devel. Europ. Thought 286 If we exclude some monophonic conceptions that have still their value for us, it [sc. music] is barely five hundred years old. 1942Scrutiny XI. i. 7 The monophonic work of Léonin and Perotin. 1972Harper's Dict. Mus. 206/1 Monophonic vocal music has existed since ancient times.
2. Of sound broadcasts, gramophone records, etc.: involving only one channel, so that there is only one output signal and all the sound appears to the listener to come from a single source; = monaural a. 2. Opp. stereophonic a.
1958Newsweek 13 Oct. 102/2 Bending an ear to a single-track (monophonic, to hi-fi devotees) record is ‘like listening to a concert through a crack in the door’. 1959Proc. Inst. Electr. Engin. CVI. b. Suppl. No. 14. 257/1 The monophonic reproduction on two loudspeakers appears to issue from a very small source situated between them but, when operating in a stereophonic manner, the ambient studio sound appears to fill the whole space between the loudspeakers with positional accent on the individual sound sources. 1960New Scientist 4 Feb. 262/2 Such a stereo system may not be ‘compatible’ with ordinary monophonic receivers. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 240 In a monophonic recording..noise at a natural level will generally sound excessive. 1968Consumer Reports Sept. 502/1 Only stereo discs are reviewed, since record companies have all but stopped producing classical monophonic discs. 1968Times 29 Nov. (Sound of Leisure Suppl.) p. vi/4 The sound was still monophonic: that is, it still came from a single track or radio signal and could never give us any sensation of listening to real musicians spread naturally across an audio stage. 1970Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXIII. 256 The pure tones..were..recorded on magnetic tapes by a single-track monophonic Tandberg tape recorder. Subsequently, these magnetic tapes were played back to S through a pair of Sharpe monaural liquid-filled headphones. 1974Nature 13 Dec. 535/1 Monophonic reproduction gave no explicit directional information, even when reproduced from more than one loudspeaker. |