1. Texture
Key Words

2. This texture is the simplest, consisting of
Monophonic
This texture is the simplest, consisting of
melody without accompanying harmony. This may be realised as just one note at a time, or with the same note duplicated at the octave.

3. (a melody accompanied by chords.)
Homophonic
A texture in which two or more parts move together in harmony, the relationship between them creating chords.
(a melody accompanied by chords.)

4. Polyphonic
This is a texture consisting of two or more independent melodic or rhythmic voices.

5. Pedal Note
A note sustained by one part, usually the bass, while other parts progress without reference to it.

6. Canon (not Cannon)
A composition or passage in which a melody is imitated by one or more voices at fixed intervals of pitch and time.