monodic's Usage Examples:

These innovations were violently opposed by the apostles of the monodic school.

The next definite stage in the musical history of the Mass was attained by the Neapolitan composers who were first to reach musical coherence after the monodic revolution at the beginning of the 17th century.

The point at issue was, that neither in the polyphonic school, in which Zarlino was educated, nor in the later monodic school, of which his recalcitrant pupil, Vincenzo Galilei, was the most redoubtable champion, could those proportions be tolerated in practice, however attractive they might be to the theorist in their mathematical aspect.

Synonyms:

monophonic, monodical,

Antonyms:

polyphonic, binaural, contrapuntal,