(1) Among the different vocal and instrumental styles that characterise the medieval period, monody plays an essential part.(2) Percussion and even the early harp played no part in the great development from monody to polyphony.(3) For me, one of its most interesting quotations was when he was introducing monody and the transition into the baroque.(4) Its regretful, transfiguring ending, built out of a wonderfully orchestral monody , is remarkable, and the clarity of the textures is quite startling.(5) the Italian masters of monody(6) It was monodic , and was composed in a variety of lyric metres in two or four-line stanzas, including the alcaic stanza, named after him.(7) I've mentioned the Easter monodies glowingly sung by Catherine King.(8) What's more, his monodic lines were often more flexible.(9) His secular vocal music, monodic and polyphonic, is mainly contained in five volumes of Musiche, and ten volumes of madrigals and villanellas.(10) Many times, and particularly when combined with texts, the melodies are presented as extended monodies , carefully controlled so that Messiaen's words can be clearly heard.(11) The musical treatment ranges from monodic to polyphonic; there are antiphonal passages, most notably when high and low voices alternate in the Christe eleison section.(12) Tuesday's performance is part of the group's desire to live a musical adventure ‘within the framework of a country which has a great monodic tradition’.
