polyphony
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It’s jazz at an early stage: this is still the era of everyone-at-once polyphony.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2023
The children have their own afflictions, as does the husband-to-be, all shared in a polyphony of severed tongues.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2023
Later, polyphony became increasingly common – when two, three or four voices would each sing different melodies, adding to the complexity of the sound.
From Salon • Oct. 22, 2022
Soon the others start to sing, too, their voices overlapping to create a rapturous polyphony.
From Scientific American • May 23, 2022
By the end of the fourteenth century, nearly all of music’s vital components had been discovered: notation, both melodic and rhythmic; structural organisation; and polyphony, the layering of voices on top of one another.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing polyphony
Common Senses: Phon ("Sound")
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Music - Middle School
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