Is polyphonic the instrumental version of a ringtone? If not, what is the instrumental version called?

Answer 1

Polyphonic literally means 'many sounds'. Monophonic means 'one sound'. Homophonic means 'the same sound'. Polyphonic music is very complex, with a lot of musical lines - think of a very complicated gospel song for instance. Monophonic music is when most people are singing the same thing at the same time - when people sing amazing grace (to continue the gospel theme) at the same time (i.e. the same note length), but in harmony. A homophonic performance would be everyone singing the same note at the same time.

When refering to polyphonic ringtones, the phone industry generalises and says that ANY song that isn't just one note at a time is polyphonic. If you want a recording of the song these are more usually referred to as realtones, as oposed to the midi version polyphonic ringtones.

Answer 2

monophonic means one phonic sound such as those on a watch (on your regular old nokia fones like the 3310)

polyphonic means two or more phonic sounds, (like when you get those dodgy top 20 songs without the singing and sounds like it is being played on a keyboard)

realtones means the tones as they exist or are recorded, they would more likely be the instrumental version i would think

Answer 3

yes...polyphonic is instrumental..or beep beep boop beep....etc. no singing

Answer 4

THE ONES WITH THE WORDS ARE CALLED "REAL RING TONES" SO YOU ARE CORRECT