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Issue 6107045: Doc: LM - Use Homophonic instead of Monophonic (Closed) Base URL: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git/trunk/
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diff --git a/Documentation/learning/fundamental.itely b/Documentation/learning/fundamental.itely
index 847c8489e750718470c5e6d6a4af6f3f8bb514ba..8d9ba6421b65bcc11795e584848312b0440f97be 100644
--- a/Documentation/learning/fundamental.itely
+++ b/Documentation/learning/fundamental.itely
@@ -578,10 +578,10 @@ In fact, a Voice layer or context is the only one which can contain
music. If a Voice context is not explicitly declared one is created
automatically, as we saw at the beginning of this chapter. Some
instruments such as an Oboe can play only one note at a time. Music
-written for such instruments is monophonic and requires just a single
-voice. Instruments which can play more than one note at a time like
-the piano will often require multiple voices to encode the different
-concurrent notes and rhythms they are capable of playing.
+written for such instruments requires just a single voice. Instruments
+which can play more than one note at a time like the piano will often
+require multiple voices to encode the different concurrent notes and
+rhythms they are capable of playing.
A single voice can contain many notes in a chord, of course,
so when exactly are multiple voices needed? Look first at
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ The fragments must also be separated with double backward slashes,
@code{\\}, to place them in separate voices. Without these, the
notes would be entered into a single voice, which would usually
cause errors. This technique is particularly suited to pieces of
-music which are largely monophonic with occasional short sections
+music which are largely homophonic with occasional short sections
of polyphony.
Here's how we split the chords above into two voices and add both
@@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ permitting a phrasing slur to be drawn over them.
@lilypond[quote,ragged-right,verbatim]
\new Staff \relative c' {
\voiceOneStyle
- % The following notes are monophonic
+ % The following notes are homophonic
dak 2012/04/22 16:16:00 I don't have a better suggestion right now, but _n
Graham Percival 2012/04/23 03:37:53 "This section is homophonic" ?
pkx166h 2012/04/26 18:51:41 Done.
c16^( d e f
% Start simultaneous section of three voices
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