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Polyphony   /pəlˈɪfəni/   Listen
Polyphony

noun
1.
Music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments.  Synonyms: concerted music, polyphonic music.





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... which he instructed me); he himself could barely span a tenth. He made frequent use of the pedal, much more frequently than is indicated in his compositions. His reading of the scores of Handel and Gluck and the fugues of Bach was unique, inasmuch as he put a polyphony and spirit into the former which gave the works ...
— Beethoven: the Man and the Artist - As Revealed in his own Words • Ludwig van Beethoven


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