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