Homophonic texture occurs when there is a melody accompanying with chords like in a guitar. In Baroque period, there was homophonic music as there was one melody with a support from a keyboard player thus one person singing happy birthday with a simple chord with melody has a homophonic texture.
A competing device is the Camera Lucida . "Camera Obscura" means "dark room", and the use of a pinhole in a window blind to form an inverted image of an outside scene on an opposite wall of a dark room.
