Lead-in to syllabic or chromatic (4)

I believe the answer is:

mono

(Other definitions for mono that I've seen before include "Transmitting over one channel" , "Not stereo" , "Single-channel sound" , "Single-speaker sound" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.

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