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Traditional (non-professional) polyphony has a wide, if uneven, distribution among the peoples of the world. [4] Most polyphonic regions of the world are in sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and Oceania. It is believed that the origins of polyphony in traditional music vastly predate the emergence of polyphony in European professional music.
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.
Cantiga – Monophonic song of Spanish or Portuguese origin, often about religious themes or courtly love. Conductus – Latin sacred song, monophonic or polyphonic non-liturgical vocal composition. Descant – Form where one singer performed a fixed melody while others improvised harmonious and melodically independent lines.
This is a list of recordings that feature the sound of a Mellotron, a polyphonic tape-replay keyboard developed in the 1960s. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
This is an alphabetically ordered list of sub-titles, nicknames and non-numeric titles that have been applied to classical music compositions of types that are normally identified only by some combination of number, key and catalogue number. These types of compositions include: symphony, concerto, sonata, and standard chamber music combinations ...
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.
The Catholic Church later allowed polyphonic arrangements to replace the Gregorian chant of the Ordinary of the Mass. This is why the Mass as a compositional form, as set by composers like Palestrina or Mozart , features a Kyrie but not an Introit.
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.