Texture Level 2

Polyphonic

Listen to this example of Bach which uses a canon to produce a polyphonic piece of music.

Here is a medieval piece of music sung only by voices ( acapella) that uses polyphonic texture

Homophonic

Here is an example of Homophonic music by Bob Dylan. His voice is the melody, the guitar is performing the accompaniment.

Monophonic

Here is Yo Yo Ma performing a monophonic texture.

Gregorian Chant is also an example of monophonic texture