The Tagh is a genre of Armenian monodic song writing. He wrote music in the new monodic style. Cecchino contributed significantly to the diffusion of the monodic style of music in Dalmatia. The Obikhod was originally monodic but later developed polyphony. Her father was a famous and popular composer and a pioneer in monodic music. These works are less strikingly original than the earlier, monodic repertoire. It does, however contain music in the monodic style. The monodic songs can be sung as two- or threefold canons.