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Meanings of polyphony in English

Russian
полифония
Portuguese
polifonia
Spanish
polifonia
Catalan
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Music with multiple, independent melody lines performed simultaneously.

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      полифония
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      polifonia
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      polifonia

      Music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments.

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          Usage of polyphony in English
          1
          Voices of kindness and common feeling sound strongly in the polyphony.
          The Guardian
          2
          The fourth movement of the symphony gave promise of being a miracle of polyphony.
          The Goose Man
          3
          Instead, he turned to early music; to plainsong; and to the beginnings of polyphony.
          Radio NZ
          4
          They had enough strong voices to pull off six-part polyphony without showing the strain.
          Anathem
          5
          As this rural idyll unfolded, Coleridge discovered an imaginative polyphony that left Wordsworth rather cold.
          The Guardian
          6
          A magnificent and measured polyphony crept in one's ears.
          A Time of Gifts
          7
          The art of polyphony is to be understood as an effort toward variety and unity combined.
          A Popular History of the Art of Music / From the Earliest Times ...
          8
          I walk down the entryway to the living room, hearing a hyperaccelerated polyphony from a digital synthesizer.
          Arrival (Stories of Your Life and Others)
          9
          He was a fine master of polyphony, and as a genuine composer is second only to Byrde.
          Purcell
          10
          Ivy recognized a cappella music, medieval polyphony.
          Seveneves
          11
          He did with polyphony for the piano and organ much the same as Palestrina did for the voice.
          Music Talks with Children
          12
          This second concert, under British choral guru Paul Hillier, was a fusion of Renaissance polyphony and contemporary meditation.
          The Irish Times
          13
          Its diversity has demanded a plurality of voices, a polyphony you find from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales onwards.
          The Guardian
          14
          So now we're dealing with polyphony, multiple voices, and the complexity is in the interaction between all of them.
          Wired
          15
          One review described a "polyphony" of voices.
          The Guardian
          16
          It's the ultimate in polyphony.
          The Irish Times