Homophony first appeared as one of the predominant textures in Western music during the Baroque period in the early 17th century, when composers began to commonly compose with vertical harmony in mind, the homophonic basso continuo becoming a definitive feature of the style.

Homophony grew popular during these years in instrumental music as well.

Homophony has appeared in several non-Western cultures, perhaps particularly in regions where communal vocal music has been cultivated.

Homophony in Thomas Tallis | Tallis ' " If ye love me ," composed in 1549.

Homophony as a term first appeared in English with Charles Burney in 1776, emphasizing the concord of harmonized melody.

We began by declaring that all men are created equal.

After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

Sure enough, mail began trickling in, delivered by a talkative, highly amused French postman who informed me there had been quite a debate at the post office as to whether that address would be recognized.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.

He began the dialogue by having his wife announce that one does not invade people's homes without warning them that one is coming, and went on from that with the entire catalogue of his social gaucheries.

but when he passed us by, a musket roared, and he reared his horse, swung it around, and began to whip it back in the direction from which he had come.

The man began to creep in the wrong direction, deceived by a slight rise in the ground!!

As head of the firm Darling & Swartz, Mr. Darling began by challenging Brown & Sharpe to its keenest competition during the 1850's and early 60's.

Vernon was serviceable on the botanical field trips, but he could arrange no schedule with the cooks, and he was glad when the trips dropped off, and the botanists began to motor out by themselves.

So he paid a call on Barco in his cell and began their chat by stating bluntly:

The study of the radio emission of the moon and planets began with the detection of the thermal radiation of the moon at 1.25-cm wave length by Dicke and Beringer ( 1946 ).

The writer began this special class by explaining his background thinking for creating such a section in the first place.

instead they divided the surface into many bands or covered it by all-over patterns into which freehand drawing began to creep.

These were carried out not too faithfully by Filippo Costaggini, who began by supplying the missing member to the founder of Pennsylvania and noting in pencil, in Italian, that he `` began at this point ''.

A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.

As the twenties grew older, and as radio broadcasts of baseball games began to involve more and more people daily in the doings of the professionals, the great hitters ( always led by Babe Ruth ) overshadowed the game so that pitchers were nearly of no account.

The only additions to the strip since 1950 began appearing in 1993, with the addition of kit suppliers logos in prominent positions.

In 2010, characters from On the Fastrack and Safe Havens began appearing in both strips.

Most anthropologists believe that cooking fires began only about 250, 000 years ago, when hearths started appearing.

Strips such as The Phantom and Terry and the Pirates began appearing in a format of two strips to a page in full-size newspapers, such as the New Orleans Times Picayune, or with one strip on a tabloid page, as in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Caligula began appearing in public dressed as various gods and demigods such as Hercules, Mercury, Venus and Apollo.

Discos began appearing across Europe and the United States.

By the age of seven, Plato began doing television commercials, reportedly appearing in over 100 spots for companies as diverse as Kentucky Fried Chicken, Dole, and Atlantic Richfield.

At age 11, he began his acting career, appearing on the British television soap opera Coronation Street, which was produced at Granada Studios by Granada Television in Manchester.

His illustrations began appearing in Harper's Weekly at an early age: before Abbey was twenty years old.

Soon the more famous red – white – blue began appearing, becoming the prevalent version from around 1630.

Shortly after the death of Charlie Parker ( nicknamed " Yardbird " or " Bird "), graffiti began appearing around New York with the words " Bird Lives ".

In the centuries following the Chinese discovery, gunpowder weapons began appearing in the Arab world, Europe, and India.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Shearer began his career as a child actor, appearing in The Jack Benny Program, as well as the 1953 films Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and The Robe.

The siddur began appearing in the vernacular as early as 1538.

Karate schools began appearing across the world, catering to those with casual interest as well as those seeking a deeper study of the art.

Other letters began appearing in the Courier, often anonymously, with claims of land or water sightings, either on the writer's part or on the parts of family, acquaintances or stories they remembered being told.

Longbows remained in use until around the 16th century, when advances in firearms made gunpowder weapons a significant factor in warfare and such units as arquebusiers and grenadiers began appearing.

At the start of 2000, Lewinsky began appearing in television commercials for Jenny Craig, Inc.

In the Middle East, cultures identified as Neolithic began appearing by in the 10th millennium BC.

Then between 80k-125 k years ago, modern humans began appearing in the middle east.

Bands that fused punk with light-hearted pop melodies, such as The Queers and Screeching Weasel, began appearing around the country, in turn influencing bands like Green Day and The Offspring, who brought pop punk wide popularity and major record sales.

The zebroid, that is, a zebra hybrid, began appearing in zoos and menageries during the 19th century.

Cambridge, UK: CUP Archive, 1973, pp 10 </ ref > Discussions on the current state of communism and abstract ideas such as freedom and identity were also becoming more common ; soon, non-party publications began appearing, such as the trade union daily < i > Prace </ i > ( Labour ).

This success turned Whitehouse and Higson's career, and they began to appear on shows such as Vic Reeves ' Big Night Out and extensively for the BBC, with Whitehouse appearing on A Bit of Fry and Laurie as a man with a clinical need to have his bottom fondled, and Paul Merton: The Series, then as performer on shows such as Harry Enfield's Television Programme, where he developed numerous characters including DJ Mike Smash of Smashie and Nicey alongside Harry Enfield as Nicey.

In the early 1990s, the term " Pepsi-stroika " began appearing as a pun on " perestroika ", the reform policy of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev.