Crossword-Solution: MONODIC 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The dates of the production of these works show us that they were not as old as the movement toward real monodic song, and it is certain that in France, at any rate, the Italian Balthazarini had already brought out in 1581 a ballet-opera, "Le Ballet Comique de la Reine," which contained real vocal solos.

CHAPTER XII--THE RISE OF POLYPHONY; OLD FRENCH AND GALLO-BELGIC SCHOOLS 148-159 Origin and meaning of polyphony--monodic and homophonic--canonic imitation--chords as incidents--variety and unity--early French school--Coussemaker's researches--Léonin--descant--Pérotin--names of pieces--Robert of Sabillon--Pierre de la Croix--Jean of Garland--Franco of Paris--Jean de Muris--fleurettes--John Cotton--Machaut--Gallo-Belgic school--Dufay--Hans de Zeelandia--Antoine de Busnois.

Chinese music has always been monodic, and they use a great variety of melodic shadings composed of intervals of small fractions of a step.

Monodic art was an art of melody only, rhythm finding its explanation and source in the words, and so far as we understand the case, scarcely at all in the music.

This habit of thought--for this is what it amounts to--is not natural to the present generation, since nearly all our music is more or less monodic (having one leading melody and an accompaniment.) Therefore the art of playing Bach has to be diligently mastered by much playing and a great deal of hard study.