单词 | homophony |
释义 | homophonyn. 1. Music. Homophonic music or style. a. Unison, or music performed in unison: opposed to antiphony. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > unison unisound1599 unison1603 unisonance1653 homophony1776 unbrokenness1849 homophone1879 1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 137 Antiphony is more agreeable than Homophony. b. loosely. Monophony, monody: opposed to polyphony. (See homophonic adj.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > other kinds of harmony antiphony1603 paraphonia?1775 close harmony1876 homophony1879 paraphony1919 heterophony1945 1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 111 The leading feature in..the 17th century is..the development of homophony with its melodious character and its richness of harmony, in contradistinction to the old strict polyphony. 2. Philology. The quality of being homophonous; identity of sound (of words or characters). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > similarity of sound consonance1589 consonancya1657 assonance1728 assonancy1770 homoeophony1838 homophony1842 idem sonans1848 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 561/1 In French, which is peculiarly a dialect of Latin abounding in contractions, homophonies are numerous. 1892 Spectator 13 Aug. 233/2 Evident corruptions of the texts..specially favoured by the homophonies of the characters. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1776 |
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