The Ordinary of the Mass will be sung in polyphony a capella with the proper of the Mass Introduxit vos in Gregorian. From Wordnik.com. [Announcement from St. Colman's Society and Your Announcements] Reference
Polyphonic music can also be called polyphony, counterpoint, or contrapuntal music. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Schubert was an ignoramus, even in music; he knew less about polyphony, which is the mother of harmony, which is the mother of music, than the average conservatory professor. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
Rather than a cacophony, it makes of itself a kind of polyphony, an antiphonal richness, an enjoyment of life and the capacity to sing, every day a kind of celebration. From Wordnik.com. [Guanajuato's sonic landscape] Reference
As for that streetwise post-minimalist Nico Muhly, he has a passion for English 17th-century polyphony which is clearly rubbing off on his own music. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
So the idea of exploring the structure of polyphony made sense. From Wordnik.com. [The More Melodies, the Merrier] Reference
That would have been polyphony, and what she'd written was scarcely that. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
These motets are to a large extent composed in loose and simple polyphony. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
In a way, it is a kind of exploded polyphony: very expressive, even violent. From Wordnik.com. [The More Melodies, the Merrier] Reference
Pärt's artistic well drew from Gregorian chant, Western classical, and polyphony. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-One] Reference
But the screaming — a polyphony of shouts and unearthly howls — galvanized her. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
From Gombert he inherited a penchant for flowing polyphony unimpeded by expressive detail. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
He did with polyphony for the piano and organ much the same as Palestrina did for the voice. From Wordnik.com. [Music Talks with Children] Reference
Paradoxically, the new style of religious polyphony was to prosper, even at the Papal court. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
The music played the day before had been a simple polyphony, functional, but not out of tune. From Wordnik.com. [The Soprano Sorceress]
There was no way of subduing that voice into anonymity among the balanced polyphony of a choir. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Thief]
Around her, strange chords were reverberating in a pattern of polyphony she couldn't quite grasp. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
You know, with Catholic tradition of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony that should be promulgated. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008] Reference
ANERIO, the name of two brothers, musical composers, very great Roman masters of 16th-century polyphony. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
Parody or quoted polyphony is found in all his masses even the Missa pro defunctis and in numerous motets. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
And their repertoire spans the ages, from Gregorian chant and Renaissance polyphony, to pop standards and spirituals. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Imperato: Chanticleer Hits Prime Time] Reference
Nevertheless, they were employed increasingly in polyphony, particularly during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. From Wordnik.com. [MUSIC AND SCIENCE] Reference
The Passions according to St Mark and St Luke are shorter works in which chordal polyphony is provided only for the turbae. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
There certainly is something to be said for the sound of muted bells and polyphony accented by permeating clouds of incense. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
That interests me because I would've figured it'd be the opposite, that her polyphony and guises would make her stand out more. From Wordnik.com. [An Entirely Informal Conversation about Howl's Moving Castle] Reference
Garbarek's free improvisation around four voices singing early polyphony caught the market for chanting monks and high-class musak. From Wordnik.com. [Officium Novum: Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble] Reference
No one was fonder of the polyphony of American democracy than Ralph Waldo Ellison; he enjoyed it so much it practically consumed him. From Wordnik.com. [A Glorious Call and Response: Ellison Thrills Himself and Us] Reference
And that was just the beginning: the city was finding its voice, or polyphony, even as it transformed itself over the next two decades. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Exposure] Reference
The process of composing over a cantus firmus he calls ordinare; for the projection of free polyphony he re - serves the term componere. From Wordnik.com. [MUSICAL GENIUS] Reference
The notation in Jacobus is ambiguous as to rhythm and meter, as well as to alignement of pitches between the voice parts in the polyphony. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
The main objection brought by the reformers against polyphony was that the elaborate imitative treatment of the voices made the words unintelligible. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
Instead, she was attracted to the rich polyphony and vibrancy of her inherited musical tradition, something that has become a sort of hallmark of Zap Mama's style. From Wordnik.com. [Zap Mama: A Story Of ReCreation] Reference
Recent activities sponsored by Unesco include the revival of the intergenerational transmission of Georgian traditional polyphony and the "safeguarding" of Somali board games. From Wordnik.com. [Mediterranean diet set for place on world heritage list] Reference
Wilson creates a gritty, lyrical polyphony of voices that evokes the character and destiny of these men and women who can't help singing the blues even when they're just talking. From Wordnik.com. [Theater: August Wilson's Gritty Guitars] Reference
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