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Polyphony   Listen
noun
Polyphony  n.  
1.
Multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an echo.
2.
Plurality of sounds and articulations expressed by the same vocal sign.
3.
(Mus.) Composition in mutually related, equally important parts which share the melody among them; contrapuntal composition; opposed to homophony, in which the melody is given to one part only, the others filling out the harmony. See Counterpoint.





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"Polyphony" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Polyphony" :   monophony, polyphonous, monophonic music


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