A lot of contemporary music is homophonic, but very little is homorhythmic. My understanding (and I'm sure some more experienced people can correct me if I'm wrong) is that homophony suggests a "melody and accompaniment" texture. Some music may consist of nothing but rhythm (unpitched drums), but generally "rhythm" is an element, a sub-category of "music". E.g., you wouldn't say "rhythm is a specific type of music". I see no logical reason why not, although I guess conventional usages may differ. Philip Tagg defines homophony as "a type of polyphony in which different strands of the music move in the same rhythm at the same time." (My emphasis.) (If those words don't exist, they should.) I.e., the harmonies would all change at the same time ("homorhythmic"), but each melodic line has a distinctly different shape, or is played by an instrument with a different timbre. Or at least "polyharmonic", "polymelodic" or "polytimbral". I.e., homorhythm is a pre-requisite of homophony.Ī piece could - the words alone suggest - be homorhythmic and polyphonic. It certainly implies that "homorhythm" would be part of that. I.e., all of them working as one in some way. That potentially implies all aspects of music: rhythm, harmony, melody, timbre. "homophony" = "sounding alike", implying some kind of undifferentiated sound. It then becomes a question of which conventions or authorities you decide to follow. The problem, of course, is that the terms are etymologically ambiguous, so (one can reasonably argue) they could legitimately be used in a few different ways.
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