Crossword-Solution: MONOPHONIC 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Above all, we must recollect that, to us Europeans, music--which, in the only sense worth our present consideration, is an exclusively European product--is incalculably the youngest of the great arts; if we exclude some monophonic conceptions that have still their value for us, it is barely five hundred years old at the most.

The prevailing melody of its monophonic style proved suitable to furnish a subject for the most animated discussion.

Under the momentum of a wrestling hour or a common rapture of experience, counterpoint was unthought of, and the same notes for every voice lifted pleading and praise in monophonic impromptu.

CHAPTER XV TERMS RELATING TO FORMS AND STYLES (_Continued_) (Sections 144 to 160 relate particularly to terms used in descriptions of _monophonic_ music[33].) [Footnote 33: There is a very pronounced disagreement among theorists as to what terms are to be used in referring to certain forms and parts of forms and it seems impossible to make a compromise that will satisfy even a reasonable number.

Whatever the troubadours and minnesingers may have done toward establishing a metrical melodic form of monophonic character was soon obliterated by the swift popularity of part singing and the immense vogue of the secular songs of the polyphonic composers.