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Polyphony Bands and Artists List

Polyphony Bands and Artists List

Polyphony ( pə-LIF-ə-nee) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).

Within the context of the Western musical tradition, the term polyphony is usually used to refer to music of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Baroque forms such as fugue, which might be called polyphonic, are usually described instead as contrapuntal. Also, as opposed to the species terminology of counterpoint, polyphony was generally either "pitch-against-pitch" / "point-against-point" or "sustained-pitch" in one part with melismas of varying lengths in another. In all cases the conception was probably what Margaret Bent (1999) calls "dyadic counterpoint", with each part being written generally against one other part, with all parts modified if needed in the end. This point-against-point conception is opposed to "successive composition", where voices were written in an order with each new voice fitting into the whole so far constructed, which was previously assumed.

The term polyphony is also sometimes used more broadly, to describe any musical texture that is not monophonic. Such a perspective considers homophony as a sub-type of polyphony.

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    Tautumeitas
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    4408
  2. 2
    Cocanha
    5573
    2108
  3. 3
    Marala
    5325
    1798
  4. 4
    Barbara Furtuna
    2791
    1092
  5. 5
    Lo Còr de la Plana
    1460
    100
  6. 6
    Orfeón Universitario de la UCV
    1362
    524
  7. 7
    Insieme vocale Vox cordis
    235
    92
  8. 8
    Ensemble Basiani
    178
    56
  9. 9
    La Mal Coiffée
    84
    24
  10. 10
    Titouan Billon
    12
    6
  11. 11
    Barrut
    11
    2
  12. 12
    Lolita Delmonteil-Ayral
    11
    2
  13. 13
    Delphine Grellier
    10
    2
  14. 14
    Audrey Hoyuelos
    7
    2
  15. 15
    Olivier Grolleau
    2
    2
  16. 16
    Samuel Grolleau
    2
    2
  17. 17
    Laure Nonique-Desvergnes
    2
    2
  18. 18
    Clément Chauvet
    2
    2
  19. 19
    Rodin Kaufmann
    0
    0
  20. 20
    Têtes de chien
    0
    0
 
 

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