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polyphony

puh li fuh nee

  • n  music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments

  • Its polyphony of voices, its constant eddying of claims to identity, is one of the things that make America America.
  • A generation of quibbling, cult-minded, critical cognoscenti has called New Orleans jazz many things, from "a rich and frequently dissonant polyphony" to "this dynamism which .
  • Sometimes the polyphony is reminiscent of tailgate blues, sometimes it comes tumbling with bell-over-mouthpiece impromptu.
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  • Eric Whitacre in CNN International
    The amazing thing about Polyphony,Whitacre says, "is just how fast they are, not just how right they are. When they recorded 'Cloudburst,' they got together on a Sunday morning and by Tuesday night they had the album."
  • Pope Benedict XVI in Catholic News Service
    Pope Benedict said, "An authentic updating of sacred music cannot take place except in the wake of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony."

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