Monophony (with a capital 'M')

an organization of musical materials based upon the faculty of the human ear to perceive all intervals and to deduce all principles of musical relationship as an expansion from unity, as 1 is to 1, or -- as it is expressed in this work [Genesis of a Music] -- 1/1.

[from Partch 1974, Genesis of a Music, 2nd ed., Da Capo Press, New York, p. 71]

See also monophony.

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