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Music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments
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polyphony
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Wikipedia
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Polyphony is a small English choir formed by Stephen Layton for one particular concert put on in King's College, Cambridge in 1986. They have released many critically acclaimed recordings, the most recent of which is Esenvalds - Passion & Resurrection . ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In both the polyphony is freely based on the traditional Passion tones. ▪ Its polyphony had to reckon with an element to which Humanism attached enormous importance: the words. ▪ Neither they nor the other kids take any notice ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments [syn: polyphonic music , concerted music ] [ant: monophony , monophony ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polyphony \Po*lyph"o*ny\, n. [Gr. ?.] Multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an echo. Plurality of sounds and articulations expressed by the same vocal sign. (Mus.) Composition in mutually related, equally important parts which share the melody ...
Usage examples of polyphony.
He was the one who showed me how our polyphony changed over time to a new style of music he called homophony, and began teaching me how to understand its forms.
The monody and empyrical tonality of the ancients gave place to polyphony and harmonized melodies resting upon the relations of tones in key.
They at any rate perceived that the vital fact concerning the new monophonic style was that the melody alone demanded individual independence, while the other parts could not, as in polyphony, ask for equal suffrage, but must sink themselves in the solid and concrete structure of the supporting chord.
They use the words counterpoint, fugue, symphony, oratorio, polyphony, the mode of Beethoven, the orchestration of Mahler, but their essential point is that, like a musician, the novelist seized time and reconstructed it according to his own laws, which were very close to those of orchestral music.
She cocked her head, listening, but could not hear the dull polyphony of the bell buoys that tolled to mark the channel.
The back room shuddered with the wave of sound, but she was already shifting to the cascades of arpeggios and the double-stopped polyphony that had become her signature.
Players in Liedwahr played melody lines that stood alone, while she was working on supporting chordsthe difference between the polyphony of Brills players and the mostly homophonic approach of, say, a Beethoven symphonyOr a Britten song cycle.