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  2. Polyphony - Wikipedia

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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 ().

  3. Polyphony and monophony in instruments - Wikipedia

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    An intuitively understandable example for a polyphonic instrument is a (classical) piano, on which the player plays different melody lines with the left and the right hand - depending on music style and composition, these may be musically tightly interrelated or may even be totally unrelated to each other, like in parts of Jazz music.

  4. Overtone singing - Wikipedia

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    Polyphonic overtone singing Pachelbel's Canon, performed by Wolfgang Saus Chirgilchin performing various styles of Tuvan throat singing.. Overtone singing, also known as overtone chanting, harmonic singing, polyphonic overtone singing, or diphonic singing, is a set of singing techniques in which the vocalist manipulates the resonances of the vocal tract to arouse the perception of additional ...

  5. Here's what English sounds like to non-English speakers - AOL

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    The song is about giving English speakers the experience of hearing what it sounds like without understanding what it means. The video has since racked up almost 9 million views.

  6. Counterpoint - Wikipedia

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    It is harder to write several individually beautiful songs that, when sung simultaneously, sound as a more beautiful polyphonic whole. The internal structures that create each of the voices separately must contribute to the emergent structure of the polyphony, which in turn must reinforce and comment on the structures of the individual voices.

  7. Plainsong - Wikipedia

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    When polyphony reached its climax in the sixteenth century, the use of plainsong chant was less appealing and almost completely abandoned. [ 2 ] There was a significant plainsong revival in the 19th century, when much work was done to restore the correct notation and performance-style of the old plainsong collections, notably by the monks of ...

  8. Paraphony - Wikipedia

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    This does not explain how that 'new (commercial) meaning' of "paraphony" that in the context of electronic music instruments in 1977 has been turned around significantly into the 21st century from multiple complete polyphonic and monophonic sounds that can be layered in unison to a modern reinterpretation that focuses only on the ability of an ...

  9. Ringtone - Wikipedia

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    Polyphonic: A polyphonic ringtone can consist of several notes at a time. The first polyphonic ring tones used sequenced recording methods such as MIDI . Such recordings specify what synthetic instrument should play a note at a given time, and the actual instrument sound is dependent upon the playback device.