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It’s jazz at an early stage: this is still the era of everyone-at-once polyphony.

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The children have their own afflictions, as does the husband-to-be, all shared in a polyphony of severed tongues.

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He was at work on a second album of “generative polyphony” when the war came to Kyiv.

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Geri Allen showed up in the 1980s with powerful grooves, exuberant melodies and astonishing polyphonies between her anchoring left hand and her wry, fluidly inventive right.

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“The shock was so huge, absolutely huge,” Pichon said, recalling the thrill of singing polyphony in a stone building, rather than practicing his violin alone.

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