Opposition of sound; or harmony thereby produced.

The intervals of the fourth and fifth; harmony based on these. Cf. paraphony, n.

harmony in which the parts composing each chord lie closely together, usually within an octave or twelfth; also attributive and figurative; cf. barbe…

Music. Homophonic music or style. loosely. Monophony, monody: opposed to polyphony. (See homophonic, adj.)

= paraphonia, n.2

Simultaneous performance by two or more singers or instrumentalists of different versions of the same melody.