Word Finder - polyphony

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Musical texture consisting of several independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).

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The quality of a text of being capable of being read in more than one way.

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the polyphony of a biblical passage

His vocal polyphony earned him respect and for awhile he was quite well off.

Finally it must be remembered that musical euphony and emotional effect are inseparable from considerations of harmony and polyphony.

Renaissance polyphony plays an important role and includes motets by a range of European composers.

Sequencing with GigaStudio GigaStudio 3.0 comes in three sizes, the Orchestra version offering unlimited polyphony for full arrangements.

Any synthesizer has a maximum polyphony which cannot be exceeded.

Enhancements include polyphony, programmability, morphing, additional LFO and ADSR, and delay.

You'll see higher polyphony counts when you use 16-bit samples than with 24-bit samples.

Notes for the musician The OPL2 synth chip can provide either nine voice polyphony or six voices plus five drum channels.

With its lightening-fast processor, 128-voice polyphony and 6 realtime performance parts, the G-70 will satisfy even the most demanding player.

The group's repertoire is extensive, ranging from early 13th century polyphony through to 20th century pop songs.

The 03R/W has 32 note polyphony, 128 ROM and 100 RAM programs and 100 combinations.

We cover a wide range of musical styles, from Gregorian chant and renaissance polyphony to contemporary music in more popular vein.

Bach himself is known to have executed it in a very polyphonic style, and this for the excellent reason that plain chords would have contrasted so strongly with the real instrumental parts that they could not fail to attract attention even in the softest tones of the harpsichord or the organ, while light polyphony in these tones would elude the ear and at the same time perfectly bridge over the gap in the harmony.

In the new art the concentration of attention upon form, as a more important source of dramatic interest and climax than texture, resulted in a neglect of polyphony which seriously damaged even Gluck's work, and which always had the grave inconvenience that while the new methods of blending and contrasting instruments stimulated an increase in the variety, if not in the size of orchestras, there was at the same time extreme difficulty in finding occupation for the members of the lower middle class of the orchestra in ordinary passages.

Where the orchestra shows that Parsifal is becoming half-conscious of his quest while Kundry is beguiling him with memories of his mother, - and also during the two changes of scene to the Hall of the Grail, where the orchestra mingles the agony of Amfortas and the sorrow of the knights with the tolling of the great bells, - the polyphony is almost as dramatic as in Tristan; while the prelude and the Charfreitagszauber are among the clearest examples of the sublime since Beethoven.

What if I want to get crazy polyphony and multiple GigaPulse instances?

The register is a little wider than 16th century polyphony.

There seems no good reason why in modern performances the pianoforte should not be used for the purpose; if only accompanists can be trained to acquire the necessary delicacy of touch, and can be made to understand that, if they cannot extemporize the necessary polyphony, and so have to play something definitely written for them, it is not a mass of interesting detail which they are to bring to the public ear.

This game is clearly not for the feint of heart, because it accurately recreates the real racing experience rather than taking on an "arcade racer" approach.If you really want to race, you'll want the '04 Polyphony Formula Gran Turismo.

The pianoforte trios of Haydn are perhaps the only-works of first-rate artistic importance in which there is no doubt that the earlier stages of the new art do not admit of sufficient polyphony to give the instruments fair play.

In the development of instrumental polyphony Haydn's work was almost as important as that of Mozart.

The polyphony of Beethoven was unquestionably influenced by it and, even in his latest sonatas and quartets, may be regarded as its logical outcome.

The invention of the damper-pedal in the pianoforte epitomizes the difference between polyphony and symphonic art, for it is the earliest device by which sounds are produced and prolonged in a way contrary to the spirit of "real" part-writing.