monotonous vs one-note

monotonous

adj
  • Tedious, repetitious, or lacking in variety. 

  • Having an unvarying pitch or tone. 

one-note

adj
  • Having only one opinion, outlook, tone, etc., especially as expressed repetitively; without variety or range. 

How often have the words monotonous and one-note occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )