Meanings
nounhomotony (usually uncountable, plural homotonies)
plural homotonies
- uncountableusuallyThe quality of being homotonous.
One has it, that the earliest payytanim, previous to the adaptation of the Arabic system of meter, continued the biblical homotony, i.e. the principle by which the number of accented syllables of each half-verse varied between two and four.
1976, Eric Wener, Contributions to a Historical Study of Jewish Music, page 87
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