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Polyphony (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ f ə n i / 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 or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords ().
The Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (One Hundred Songs of Harmonic Music, [1] also known simply as the Odhecaton) is an anthology of polyphonic secular songs published by Ottaviano Petrucci in 1501 in Venice. It is the first book of polyphonic music ever to be printed using movable type.
The polyphonic song of Epirus is a form of traditional folk polyphony practiced among Albanians, Aromanians, Greeks and ethnic Macedonians in southern Albania and northwestern Greece. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The polyphonic song of Epirus is not to be confused with other varieties of polyphonic singing, such as the yodeling songs of the region of Muotatal ...
In its typical specialized usage, the word chanson refers to a polyphonic French song of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. [4] Early chansons tended to be in one of the formes fixes—ballade, rondeau or virelai (formerly the chanson baladée)—though some composers later set popular poetry in a variety of forms. The earliest chansons were ...
The music of Epirus (Greek: Μουσική της Ηπείρου), in Epirus, northwestern Greece, present to varying degree in the rest of Greece and the islands, contains folk songs that are mostly pentatonic and polyphonic, characterized as relaxed, gentle and exceptionally beautiful, and sung by both male and female singers.
It is a three-part song from the region of Kakheti, dramatising preparations for a battle. [1] It is characterised by two highly ornamented individual vocal parts over a choral foundation. [2] When Georgian vocal polyphony was recognized by UNESCO, as an Intangible Heritage masterpiece in 2001, "Chakrulo" was cited as a prime example. [3] "
The conductus can include either one voice or multiple voices, known as monophonic and polyphonic compositions. The surviving repertories indicates the monophonic conducti are about double sizes of the polyphony type. But it was the polyphonic conductus that become one of principal musical genres in Parisian polyphony.
Song Artist Album Year Player Model played The Rain Song: Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy: 1973 John Paul Jones: M400 The Red Flower of Tachai Blooms Everywhere Steve Hackett: Spectral Mornings: 1979 Nick Magnus M400 Ride My See-Saw: The Moody Blues: In Search of the Lost Chord: 1968 Mike Pinder: MkII Robbery, Assault and Battery Genesis: A ...