Music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments.
Synonyms
Examples for "polyphony"
Examples for "polyphony"
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Voices of kindness and common feeling sound strongly in the polyphony.
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The fourth movement of the symphony gave promise of being a miracle of polyphony.
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Instead, he turned to early music; to plainsong; and to the beginnings of polyphony.
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They had enough strong voices to pull off six-part polyphony without showing the strain.
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As this rural idyll unfolded, Coleridge discovered an imaginative polyphony that left Wordsworth rather cold.
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After this we were able to get good concerted music for the opera.
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There were plenty of dogs, though, and we had concerted music every night.
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Of course, ever since concerted music began, there has been a musical leader of some kind.
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She took the concerted music in the finale of the first act two whole bars before her time.
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He has, besides, a certain dramatic gift, and the concerted music in 'La Gioconda' is powerful and effective.
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The old polyphonic music differed from the newer harmonic music in three respects:
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It is where a very important style of polyphonic music began.
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There have never lived greater masters than these in the art of polyphonic music.
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He employed contemporary polyphonic music as a model for the harmony of the solar system.
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But, there are some other facts: the European civilization invented the polyphonic music (the most advanced music).
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The great Bach infused this into his fugues, the highest manifestation of the contrapuntal, or polyphonic music of old.
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So, in the history of civilizations, sculpture developed early, after poetry, but with architecture, and before painting and polyphonic music.
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The European polyphonic music is one of the results of the "marriage" between image and symbolic models in music.
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This has led to impressive results like producing Bach chorals, polyphonic music with multiple instruments, as well as minute long musical pieces.
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We are talking here about Christianity, open sea navigation, the heliocentric model of the Universe, polyphonic music, Newton's Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics and Relativity theory.
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Unrhythmical singing could not always hold its own; and when polyphonic music came into public favor, secular airs gradually found their way into the choirs.
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Polyphonic music of every sort had now to go for a while; monodic music was coming in.