This document discusses different types of musical texture, including monophonic texture which has one melodic layer, homophonic texture which features a prominent melody accompanied by background harmony, polyphonic texture containing multiple independent melodies occurring simultaneously, and heterophonic texture where variations of the same melody happen together.

1. TEXTURE

2. Layers of musical sound in terms of
number and function.

3. TYPES OF TEXTURE

4. Monophonic
• Mono means one.
• One layer one melody.

6. Homophonic
• Homo means same.
• Harmony is added on melody
• One layer grabs your attention, and
the other layer is just hanging out in
the background.

8. Polyphonic
• Poly means many.
• two totally separate melodies.
occurring simultaneously.
• a piece of music has multiple
independent layers happening at the
same time.

10. Heterophonic
• Hetero means different.
• It occurs when there are two or more
versions of the same melody
happening at the same time.