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polyphonic music

NOUN
  1. music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments

How To Use polyphonic music In A Sentence

  • For the four-concert, three-day series that ended Sunday, the pair co-created a program based on their shared admiration for the relatively neglected masters of polyphonic music, devoting one concert each to a composer who wrote music based on interweaving melodies. Modern Echoes of the Renaissance
  • Polyphonic music of every sort had now to go for a while; monodic music was coming in. Haydn
  • Attwood attests that a partiality for the polyphonic music of JS Bach motivated Mozart to supplement his fortepiano with a pedal board.
  • Professor Chen'mingzhi is a famous composer, theorist, music educator and an eminent specialist in the theory and practice of polyphonic music in our country.
  • Polyphonic music can also be called polyphony, counterpoint, or contrapuntal music. Archive 2009-05-01
  • When the Council of Trent inveighed against polyphonic music for sacred purposes, although the target of their arrows was Palestrina, they might just as well have been speaking of Gombert.
  • As a major genre of polyphonic music, invention is short in composition.
  • Any of several types of vocal polyphonic music, in two, three, or four parts, of the9th to the early13th century.
  • It is polyphonic music at its most pure and silky, somehow lighter and more contemplative than many of the compositions of Buxtehude's more illustrious colleague, Johann Sebastian Bach.
  • The publication of polyphonic music, and particularly the Latin motets that Byrd insisted that East print, was not especially profitable.
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