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Polyphonic   Listen
adjective
Polyphonic  adj.  
1.
Having a multiplicity of sounds.
2.
Characterized by polyphony; as, Assyrian polyphonic characters.
3.
(Mus.) Consisting of several tone series, or melodic parts, progressing simultaneously according to the laws of counterpoint; contrapuntal; as, a polyphonic composition; opposed to homophonic, or monodic.





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"Polyphonic" Quotes from Famous Books



... have they since fallen into neglect without grave injury to the art. But strict canon soon proved inadequate, and even dangerous, as the sole regulating principle in music; and its rival and cognate principle, the basing of polyphonic designs upon a given melody to which one part (generally the tenor) was confined, proved scarcely less so. Nor were these two principles, the canon and the canto fermo, likely, by combination in their strictest forms, to produce better ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 - "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" • Various


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