Music with multiple, independent melody lines performed simultaneously.
Music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments.
Synonyms
Examples for "polyphonic music"
Examples for "polyphonic music"
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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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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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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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A magnificent and measured polyphony crept in one's ears.
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The art of polyphony is to be understood as an effort toward variety and unity combined.
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I walk down the entryway to the living room, hearing a hyperaccelerated polyphony from a digital synthesizer.
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He was a fine master of polyphony, and as a genuine composer is second only to Byrde.
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Ivy recognized a cappella music, medieval polyphony.
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He did with polyphony for the piano and organ much the same as Palestrina did for the voice.
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This second concert, under British choral guru Paul Hillier, was a fusion of Renaissance polyphony and contemporary meditation.
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Its diversity has demanded a plurality of voices, a polyphony you find from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales onwards.
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So now we're dealing with polyphony, multiple voices, and the complexity is in the interaction between all of them.
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One review described a "polyphony" of voices.
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It's the ultimate in polyphony.