Just as clothes can be made out of fabrics with different textures and as a consequence of that a different "feel", music can also have all kinds of textures.

Texture in music is about the "weaving" of different parts or voices in the musical fabric and their relations.

(Definitions from glossary AHWM9)

texture ahwm9

homophony ahwm9

homofonie

as in a psalm setting (Goudimel)

 

polyphony ahwm9

polyfonie

as in a fugue (J.S. Bach)

 

heterophony ahwm9

as in folk musik with improvisational elements

 

melody and accompaniment ahwm9

as in a Bach chorale where in the harmony ornamental or non-harmonic notes are added.