{{short description|Musical texture having a "similarity of rhythm in all parts"}} [[Image:Sousa - "Washington Post March," m. 1-7.png|thumb|300px|Introduction to Sousa's "Washington Post March", m. 1-7{{audio|Sousa - "Washington Post March," m. 1-7.mid|}} features octave doubling<ref>Benward & Saker (2003). ''Music: In Theory and Practice'', Vol. I, p.133. Seventh Edition. {{ISBN|978-0-07-294262-0}}.</ref> and a homorhythmic texture.]]

In music, a '''homorhythm''' or '''homometer''' is a texture having a "similarity of rhythm in all parts"<ref name="Griffiths">Griffiths, Paul (2005). ''The Penguin Companion to Classical Music'', p.375. {{ISBN|0-14-051559-3}}.</ref> or "very similar rhythm" as would be used in simple hymn or chorale settings.<ref name="Randel">Randel, Don Michael (2002). ''The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', p.305. {{ISBN|0-674-00978-9}}.</ref> Homorhythm is a condition of homophony.<ref name="Griffiths"/> All voices sing the same rhythm. This texture results in a homophonic texture, which is a blocked chordal texture. Homorhythmic texture delivers lyrics with clarity and emphasis. Texture in which parts have different rhythms is '''heterorythmic''' or '''heterometric'''.

The term is used for compositions in which all the voice-parts move simultaneously in the same rhythm, forming a succession of chords.<ref name="Apel">Apel, Willi (1969). ''Harvard Dictionary of Music'', p.426. Harvard. {{ISBN|9780674375017}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/opr/t114/e3313|title=homorhythm|last=Latham|first=Alison|website=Oxford Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=March 17, 2017}}</ref> It may also be called ''chordal style'', ''familiar style'', ''vertical harmony'', ''note-against-note style'', ''isometric'', and ''homophonic''.<ref name="Randel"/> ''Isometric'' may used to refer to music in which each vocal part has the same number of syllables, with ''isorythmic'' being used to refer to music in which each voice has the same rhythm.

[[Image:If ye love me.png|thumb|center|400px|Homophony in Tallis' "If Ye Love Me", composed in 1549. The voices move together using the same rhythm, and the relationship between them creates chords: the excerpt begins and ends with an F major triad. {{audio|If ye love me.ogg|Play}}]]

==Isometre== <!--Isometre redirects directly here.--> {{See also|Isorhythm}}

'''Isometre''' is the use of pulse without regular meter. The music is used in the psalmsongs of the Orthodox Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, based on the rhythm made by Petrus Datheen (16th century), as well as some other churches.{{clarification|date=August 2013|What music?}} Isometric music may be homometric music or music in which each vocal part has the same number of syllables, with ''isorythmic'' being used to refer to music in which each voice has the same rhythm.

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