| 单词 | polyphonic |
| 例句 | In the Renaissance, modern music was understood to be quite different from ancient music because it was polyphonic rather than monodic—Galileo’s father, Vincenzo, wrote a Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He simply carried on where Dufay left off, thickening and embellishing the polyphonic choral style that you would have heard almost anywhere across Europe in the later fifteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She turned the cassette player on, nodding to the polyphonic beat of drums. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The Greek term for more than one voice line singing together is polyphonic: many voices. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Music that is mostly homophonic can become temporarily polyphonic if an independent countermelody is added. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The music that is made up of counterpoint can also be called polyphony, or one can say that the music is polyphonic or speak of the polyphonic texture of the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I just nod, in hopes that it appears I know what polyphonic means. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z It’s an international survey called “Agitprop!,” in which politics is loud, clear and polyphonic. Galleries Scramble Amid Brooklyn’s Gentrification 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z With its powerful sound and polyphonic possibilities it was like the male dancer in a pas de deux who acts as a foil for the violin’s more supple, slender tone and allows it to soar. Critic’s Notebook: Monica Germino Melds Violin and Electronics 2013-06-16T21:51:17Z They played — of course — “When the Saints Go Marching In,” with an old-fashioned polyphonic swagger that promised continuity for another New Orleans generation. Music Review: Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Carnegie Hall - Review 2012-01-08T23:16:20Z A surging first movement is followed by a restless scherzo, a generously lyrical slow movement and an impetuous finale that sounds fantastical on the surface but is run through with polyphonic passages. Classical Recordings: Schumann: Complete Works for Piano Trio 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z Instead, Smith offers an idea in a contemplative way: a polyphonic passage, a drone or a melody that starts, pauses and repeats with a slight but crucial change. This Trumpeter’s Legacy Also Includes Composing String Quartets 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Thus BIG manifests what might be called the polyphonic ethics of contemporary architecture. Exhibit highlights architecture as a product of its environment 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z In its brief citation the Swedish Academy, cited Alexievich “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus Wins Nobel Prize for Literature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Women in colorful head scarves prayed and kissed icons as the venerable Anchiskhati Choir sang harmonically striking polyphonic chants. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z Grainger fantasised about bringing together diverse forces for his Scotch Strathspey and Reel, including deep-sea sailors "miraculously endowed with the gift of polyphonic improvisation". Prom 25: Northern Sinfonia/Kathryn Tickell Band/BBC Singers ? review 2011-08-03T13:25:42Z For the last few days, my social-media feeds—which, most of the time, read like bleak, polyphonic litanies of the falling-apart world—have been overwhelmed instead by discourse about the sandwich. The Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is Here to Save America 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Its sensibility was shaped by a CD Mattingly grew up with that featured the Tahitian Choir: “this glorious, polyphonic, joyous sound,” he said, “that’s moving around itself and congealing and drifting apart.” A Six-Hour Opera Goes On for One Euphoric Night Only 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z That’s because this beguiling program of expressive and richly ornate polyphonic works from the English Renaissance constituted an encounter with survivors of a much older cultural cataclysm. Review: Singing the Lone Survivors of Nearly Lost Music 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The students waved and yelled a polyphonic goodbye; Xiao Long led me through a door at the back of the classroom. Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z As a writer, she possesses an enviable ear for the profane, polyphonic music of New York speech in its various idioms. ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ Review: Rapper’s Delight 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The group gave a beautiful account of Robert White’s setting of “Christe Qui Lux es est Dies,” a Compline hymn, which sets simple plainsong verses into radiantly rotating, polyphonic motion. Music Review: Stile Antico Pays Tribute to ‘Tudor Church Music’ 2014-03-09T20:21:15Z Phrasing and harmonic sensibility and polyphonic sense — all that background we have in common. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z But the exhibition is polyphonic, layered and, in many ways, I think, cathartic. Review | A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The program of Renaissance sacred polyphonic music focused on composers from what is now western Belgium and northern France, whose skills were much in demand throughout Europe. Music Review: The Tallis Scholars Sing Comp?re and Mouton 2010-03-29T21:18:00Z During the “Kyrie,” her affection for American minimalism is clear when insistent string writing powers the vocalists’ polyphonic plea for “mercy to all creed and claw.” 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z It often seemed as if the composers were compensating for the violin’s single voice by yoking three together as if they were a single polyphonic instrument — a bow-driven keyboard, in a way. Music Review: Juilliard Baroque With Violin Music at Paul Hall - Review 2011-09-29T21:33:58Z The novella-length “A Country for Dying” is quite different; out of a polyphonic onslaught, Taïa fashions a globe-trotting yet tenuous story. Queer Exile: Three Novels About Émigrés, Lovers and Family 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Missy Mazzoli’s joyous “Vesper Sparrow” was inspired by a polyphonic Sardinian folk style based on overtone singing. Review: For Roomful of Teeth, It’s All About the Polyphony 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z We can absorb written stuff in different ways, and in polyphonic ways. Laurie Anderson: music for dogs and Obama 2013-02-13T20:00:01Z He has a rich and vibrant tone — almost polyphonic, really — and he captures that sweet spot between lyrical bite and melodic celebration that we all associate with music. Beatles tribute asks: When I get older, will you still love me? 2011-02-09T22:56:37Z And this: "a polyphonic chorus of pumped up bodies". Michelangelo Is the Divine Star of the Must-See Show of the Season 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z But in the new incarnation of “The Normal Heart,” which opened Wednesday night at the Golden Theater, anger is only one note in a polyphonic chord. | 'The Normal Heart': Raw Anguish of the Plague Years 2011-04-28T02:30:28Z “There There,” Tommy Orange’s polyphonic debut novel, takes its title from Gertrude Stein’s cutting line about Oakland, Calif: “There is no there there.” With ‘There There,’ Tommy Orange Has Written a New Kind of American Epic 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Nothing Mr. Self has previously written prepares you for the polyphonic scree of language that is “Umbrella,” however. Books of The Times: ‘Umbrella’ by Will Self 2013-01-17T21:22:51Z Under the heading “Legends of St. Nicholas” came polyphonic selections dedicated to that saint, including one of the oldest songs in the English language. Music Review: Noel in the Museum, Medieval Edition 2010-12-16T05:00:06Z There is a moment in Warner’s novel when the bishop’s clerk journeys to a leper house and participates in an impromptu recital of Ars Nova, a new style of polyphonic music. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z Elements of the high polyphonic tradition run through his work. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z TM Wolf builds up layer upon layer of dialogue, description and to create a polyphonic texture. Guardian Books podcast: Fiction that pushes at the limits of design 2012-06-22T11:15:22Z In “A Quiet Place” the ribbons and glitter are gone: the music is jagged and fractured, with polyphonic chorales and jazzy burlesques that explode in bursts of dissonance. ?A Quiet Place? Of Dysfunction And Dystopia 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z From the French symbolist poet Paul Fort she learned a technique of writing "polyphonic prose" – prose which used the different voices of poetry, such as "metre, vers libre, assonance, alliteration, rhyme and return". Poem of the week: In a Garden by Amy Lowell 2013-07-29T10:12:18Z Georgia’s three-voiced polyphonic tradition dates back to pagan times and is currently undergoing a revival there. Music Review: Ensemble Basiani?s Georgian Fare at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-17T22:40:00Z Four decades and eight novels into her career, Evaristo became an “overnight success” in 2019, when her polyphonic “Girl, Woman, Other” won the Booker Prize. Bernardine Evaristo Recalls a Life on the Outside 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z But the earlier work is deliberately polyphonic, clamorous with competing points of view. Review | A woman reconstructs her past with the help of an old journal in ‘Memories of the Future’ 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z With that peculiar leaden-footed clumsiness he was to display later in life, Wagner Jr told Humperdinck: "Your polyphonic texture is a true marvel", which could be a description of a variety of pebbledash. Bliss; BBC Prom 61: H?nsel and Gretel 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Public Enemy, performing its album “Fear of a Black Planet” with a live band, riled the crowd on Sunday with polyphonic shouting, slogans and self-congratulation: a riot of context. Critic?s Notebook: All Tomorrow?s Parties Festival at Asbury Park, N.J. 2011-10-03T22:40:06Z In the 1500s the Council of Trent of the Roman Catholic Church fretted that polyphonic singing might distract congregants, but there was never any such debate in Georgia, Ms. Tsurtsumia said. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z Georgia’s polyphonic folk tradition fared better than sacred music during that period, but the Soviets professionalized folk music and encouraged arrangements for large choirs, often at the expense of authenticity. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z At other times, the quartet created a gentle drone that underpinned the elegiac intertwining of the polyphonic vocal lines. Review: Hints of Eternity at Trinity Wall Street 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z When he died in 1938, Capek was working on this bleak polyphonic novel about a half-crazed, compulsively plagiaristic composer. In Praise of Karel Capek 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z But that would be a stretch: the richly polyphonic, smoothly flowing works are not unusual for their time. Music Review: So Percussion at Gary Snyder/Project Space 2010-05-09T21:48:00Z He was born in 1685, when the Baroque period was thriving yet vestiges of the Renaissance age of polyphonic music were lingering. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z I’m very happy to pull from a polyphonic tool kit. Mike Mills’s ‘20th Century Women’ is ‘very long thank-you note’ to his late mother 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z He worked with local experts and volunteers to create a show that echoes the polyphonic structure of “The Waste Land,” and explores its roots here in a specific time of postwar crisis. 2 Literary Greats, in Art Galleries by the Sea 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Instead, it illuminated the polyphonic aspects of the piece, far more so than the symphonic transcriptions or even the organ original. Bernard Labadie's welcome return to Disney Hall 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The quartet presents "Secret Voices: The Sisters of Las Huelgas," polyphonic works created by rebel women in a Spanish convent in a time when such musical activity was forbidden. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-04-20T22:18:11Z Hailing a group of mathematically-precise young explorers of tricky contemporary beats, who like making polyphonic in which the melodies simultaneously move to different grooves, hardly warrants holding the front page. Dave Manington's Riff Raff: Hullabaloo – review 2013-01-24T23:30:01Z The challenges of signing music multiply when it comes to polyphonic works like the Passion oratorios of Bach, with their complex tapestries of orchestral and vocal counterpoint and declamatory recitatives. Making Music Visible: Singing in Sign 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The programming concept was strong, with contrasting examples of music written around the year 1500, with Northern European composers representing the complex polyphonic style and Italian ones a more declamatory style. ‘A Renaissance Christmas’ at the Folger 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z As the Izquierdos and McAllen go, Degollado convinces us, so goes life: polyphonic, mixing across borders, expanding with a musicality that only strengthens as it grows. One Family, and One Multigenerational Curse, in the Texas Borderlands 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The ensemble, singing in close harmony, presented sacred and folk music displaying polyphonic devices ranging from simple drones to intricately interwoven melodies, which often crossed or combined to produce harmonies pungent to the Western ear. Music Review: Bach and Polyphonies Minifestival at Lincoln Center 2010-08-15T21:47:00Z The polyphonic storytelling enriches this amply populated novel, whose ambitions extend well beyond the Balkans. When the Town’s Future Is an Obsolete Factory 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z In his high-spirited “High Done No Why To,” William Brittelle also focused on sound instead of lyrics, creating a vivid polyphonic canvas with a hint of yodeling. Review: For Roomful of Teeth, It’s All About the Polyphony 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Early jazz from New Orleans framed soloists’ interjections with a raucous polyphonic texture; big bands, in the thirties, provided a thickness of intricate arrangement or urgent riffs. The Best Jazz Reissues of 2014 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Nationalist pride and the increasing strength of the Georgian Orthodox Church are intertwined with a revival of its ancient polyphonic sacred music, repressed during the Soviet regime. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z The novel’s polyphonic structure delivers a wrenchingly sad story. ‘The Blazing World’: charting an artist’s turbulent inner life 2014-04-09T20:15:27Z Another, at Temple University in Philadelphia, will develop an online tool to transcribe early polyphonic music, which consists of multiple independent melodies that are played or sung at the same time, in standard musical notation. National Endowment for the Humanities Announces $28.1 Million in Grants 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z The novel shifts, polyphonic, between timelines, jig-sawing its narrative, revealing depths in the shallowest of characters. Violent Tragedy Upends a Bible Belt Town in This Brisk Novel 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Through the polyphonic, epoch-hopping torrent, we gradually construct a coherent and beguiling narrative. Umbrella by Will Self – review 2012-08-10T21:55:01Z Stravinsky, a contrapuntal master himself, spoke of his fascination with Georgian singing, whose rich polyphonic tradition dates to the pagan era. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z He has a very complex sense of the polyphonic sense of spacing and contrasting tempo and choreographic ideas. New York City Ballet Gambles on Unknown Choreographers 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The polyphonic motets gaze back towards the great Spanish choral tradition, but are accompanied by the throb of guitars and the clash of castanets. Fiesta Criolla/From Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro 2010-08-20T13:50:00Z Belarussian writer Alexievich won last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." 6 intriguing new nonfiction books 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Set to the music of the Corsican polyphonic group A Filetta, it examines the complex ways in which we create order and meaning through art. This week's new dance 2013-04-20T05:00:23Z Holloway sounds on the brink of madness, romping over a demented melodic topography and constantly unleashing her secret weapon, an almost polyphonic yell that acts as a war cry for love's constant battle. Loleatta Holloway: more than a voice 2011-03-22T18:54:13Z The result is an extraordinarily complex, polyphonic audiovisual experience. “The Other Side of the Wind,” Reviewed: A Belated Orson Welles Masterpiece 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Some used polyphonic overtone singing, a technique that creates the aura of a single voice simultaneously producing multiple tones. A smorgasbord of singers delivers a timely serenade 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z But while keeping the hushed dynamics steady, Lim bent individual string lines away from the expected polyphonic patterns. Review: A Portrait Reveals a Composer With a Dramatic Edge 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The boundless array of restrictions imposed on women over the centuries has included a ban on their singing polyphonic music in the Middle Ages. Music Review: Anonymous 4 at Corpus Christi Church - Review 2011-10-25T22:00:50Z Like other of the harmonically quirky polyphonic songs performed by the stellar Ensemble Basiani, “Khasanbegura” sounded cutting-edge, certainly to Western ears. Music Review: Ensemble Basiani?s Georgian Fare at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-17T22:40:00Z A Red Army theme started off dolorously stamping, before being playfully twisted by Cohen's funky polyphonic parts for strings, woodwind and his own incisive bassline. Avishai Cohen with Strings – review 2013-05-08T16:48:00Z The sheng is a Chinese mouth organ capable of producing intricate polyphonic sounds; the work, full of pulsating textures that appear to contract and expand, sounds, at times, uncannily like electronic music. Unsuk Chin Talks About Her Music and Influences 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Beckett's musicality is often noted in the sharply defined rhythmic profiles of his prose-poetry, and in the dense polyphonic interplay of short, carefully controlled motivic cells. Old Earth – review 2012-06-17T15:46:45Z Yet with its mix of traditional tablecloths and fresh wild posies, the room couldn’t feel less pretentious, especially when a table spontaneously burst out in the traditional, emotional polyphonic village songs, as often happens. Humble Magic in Georgian Capital’s Restaurant Renaissance 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Rooted in contemporary cityscapes and mythic pasts, with affects ranging from melancholy optimism to humor to horror, this collection is a sensuous, polyphonic feast. Power and Passage: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Her word to describe her collaboration with Mr. Adams and Mr. Sellars is “polyphonic.” Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z Based on preliminary conversations with the producers, Ms. Egan said it was her sense that the television series would “try to capture the polyphonic quality” of her novel. ArtsBeat: Jennifer Egan Talks TV Plans for 'A Visit From the Goon Squad' 2011-04-21T16:26:04Z Its Renaissance flavor, with a rich polyphonic texture created by the instrumental combination, lingered in scores written in later centuries. Music Review: At 4x4 Baroque Music Festival, Five-Part Works Are the Stars 2013-07-31T22:05:04Z He traveled to the republic of Georgia to record polyphonic folk songs and to Fez, Morocco, in search of Sufi music. David Lewiston, Who Recorded Indigenous Music Far and Wide, Dies at 88 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Voiced by three monophonic voices and one polyphonic voice. Truckasauras' 'Bothell Trance,' Barboza concert June 28 2012-06-20T17:51:07Z For the Observer's Sarah Churchwell, this "series of chapters featuring interlocking characters at different points in their lives" was "a delight to read, gradually distilling a medley out of its polyphonic, sometimes deliberately cacophonous voices." Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2011-03-26T00:05:39Z The group gives the polyphonic harmonies of Ukrainian traditional songs a contemporary, internationalist makeover, using African, Australian, Arabic, Indian and Russian instrumentation alongside punk, scatting, hip-hop, trance and dance influences. DakhaBrakha, a Band From Kyiv, Saw a War Coming 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z But the real test of the group’s mettle was in the large, polyphonic works. Music Review: Stile Antico Choir at Corpus Christi Church - Review 2011-12-19T22:40:59Z In the orchestra pit, conductor Alfred Eschwe did justice to the full Germanic tapestry of the score, weaving a polyphonic musical manuscript to the onstage goings on. Witch burns, audience on fire at Vienna opera show 2012-12-23T23:01:04Z April - England is a mildly subversive exercise in English pastoralism, perky and rippling in its outer sections, but going walkabout in between, and visiting some unexpected and richly polyphonic territory. Proms 27 & 28: Hall?/Elder; BCMG/Volkov 2010-08-07T12:03:00Z Attempts at theater in polyphonic motets didn’t work, such as the chorus clumsily moving to the lip of the stage in front of Wong, who continued to enthusiastically conduct to thin air. Bach times two: Collegium and Master Chorale double the elation 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Her simple gestures can read as childlike, even crude, but they express a deeply felt, polyphonic cosmology. Etel Adnan’s Bittersweet Arrival at the Guggenheim 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Using polyphonic extended techniques, he made multiple droning lines drift apart and then return to states of equilibrium. Review: New Works Designed With a Daring Trumpeter in Mind 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The Tallis Scholars, the redoubtable English choir that specializes in Renaissance music, is recording all of the polyphonic settings of the Latin Mass Ordinary attributed to Josquin. CD reviews: Fresh takes on Gershwin and Josquin 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z It's a brave composer who takes on such a challenge, and while the piece is overlong and occasionally muddy, its closing pages build a lasting monument in glorious, polyphonic sound. Steve Reich, London Sinfonietta; Mitsuko Uchida; Tallis Scholars – review 2013-03-10T00:06:07Z If you listen to the scene in its original language, it's a polyphonic effect. "It is always the other who is guilty, never us": Movie "R.M.N." examines what drives xenophobia 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Both slim, polyphonic novels stare down violence and vulnerability, cruelty and confusion. Han Kang’s ‘Human Acts’ explores the long shadow of a South Korean massacre 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z With Obbligato, usually assembled as a quintet, he uses a polyphonic approach to unpack jazz standards. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z The most impressive technical achievement was revealed on George Thalben-Ball’s mostly pedal-only variations on Paganini’s 24th caprice, including glissandi for both feet and polyphonic textures requiring the feet to play more than one note simultaneously. Latvian organist shows pedal power at the Kennedy Center The text, together with some elegant polyphonic choral writing, is the strongest element. War Requiem; King Priam; Caligula – review 2012-06-02T23:05:59Z I was annoyed by this flatulent writing by the time I reached "polyphonic choral of pumped bodies." Michelangelo Is the Divine Star of the Must-See Show of the Season 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The effect is vibrantly polyphonic: On the banners, big, dark characters float and pulsate over dense fields of smaller, lighter ones. Rachid Koraichi, Making His Own Language 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The walls of the shelter, like those of the Gothic cathedral before it, reverberated with polyphonic music from a world beyond pain: not sacred, not quite, but certainly exalted. Reconstructing Kyiv, One Synth Wave at a Time 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Colin Towns, the British film and television-score writer and thrilling composer, can give big-band music a rock group's heat, a symphony orchestra's polyphonic variety and a swing ensemble's flaring brassy punch. Colin Towns and the NDR Big Band: John Lennon ? In My Own Write - review 2011-02-10T23:13:01Z The Republic of Georgia is amazing: the polyphonic singing — it’s this gorgeous, dissonant, beautiful singing — the wine, the dances. Tracing Your Roots Through Travel, According to Mickela Mallozzi 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Drawing on a wealth of letters and fresh scholarship, Walker creates a polyphonic work that elegantly interweaves multiple strands. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The polyphonic narrative that ensues has the pacing and urgency of a spy thriller but the middling stakes of a book about a group of privileged kids sending each other cryptic texts. Review | Can a thriller also be a feminist social critique? Lisa Lutz gives it a try in ‘The Swallows’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The son of a concert pianist, he described his novels as polyphonic symphonies, works that mixed various tones and styles — fable, essay, autobiographical reflection — to explore the nature of identity or mortality. This week’s passages 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z But we also read on captivated by the novel’s beautiful prose and polyphonic voices, and marveling at both its epic scope and rare intimacy. Review | In ‘The Sun Walks Down,’ a boy disappears into the Australian outback 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z She worked on “The Rabbit Hutch” for around five years, finding a new and deeper connection to her material — a polyphonic portrait of low-income housing residents in Indiana. Book award finalists are ‘debut novelists’ in name only 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z EYIBRA, a musician and vocalist in the piece, pulled from polyphonic ritual songs and contemporary experimental music to create a soundscape. An immersive show challenging the gender binary combines dirt and a futuristic soundscape 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Garza manages to expertly capture a range of voices in this stunning and elegiac polyphonic novel published in August. 11 books to read during Hispanic Heritage Month 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Adam Levin’s “Mount Chicago” is one of those sweeping, polyphonic, epic novels they used to make, our critic writes. Your Monday Briefing: U.S. Senate Passes Major Legislation 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z In his own poetry he developed a polyphonic approach, writing “outrageous ventriloquisms,” as he put it, in which he adopted the perspectives of literary and historical figures, usually from the Victorian era. Richard Howard, Pulitzer-winning poet and translator, dies at 92 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z A: This Ruggles piece of course is a polyphonic one — it’s something that could be sung. For Michael Tilson Thomas, the grandeur of music answers a grim diagnosis 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Set in the future amid a pandemic far worse than our own, this polyphonic novel reflects our human desire to find meaning within tragedy. A Near-Future Plague, the Neuroscience of Navigation, and More 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z The book, which the Pulitzer judges praised as “a majestic, polyphonic novel ... rendered with dexterity and imagination,” draws on the story of Erdrich’s grandfather in North Dakota. 2021 Pulitzer Prize winners include books reckoning with Black history and representation 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Seto Leelo, a type of polyphonic singing specific to the region, is listed as a form of Intangible Cultural Heritage by Unesco. The border tearing an ancient European people apart 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z In its previous five months on sale, the polyphonic novel, mostly narrated by black women, had sold 4,391 copies. Bernardine Evaristo doubles lifetime sales in five days after joint Booker win 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The committee praised “her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”. Svetlana Alexievich: ‘Most children caught up in war die early’ 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z When she won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2015, her citation noted “her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” Review | Horrors of World War II, through children’s eyes 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Until very recently, the slider phone was a thing of the past, consigned to the annals of history along with polyphonic ringtones and BlackBerry’s scroll wheel. Lenovo’s Z5 Pro is a cheaper take on the slider phone trend 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z As a composer, Muhly is attracted to glittering sounds, elegantly intertwining lyrical lines, and austere polyphonic textures modelled on Renaissance and Anglican choral music. Nico Muhly Escapes Hitchcock with a “Marnie” Opera 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Writing a polyphonic, multigenerational novel is resisting this one idea of what being Native is supposed to look like. Tommy Orange: ‘There’s a monolithic version of what a Native American is supposed to be’ 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z A hyperactive, polyphonic, time-twisting excursion into arid California, it opens with a modern fable. From Lawrence of Arabia to Breaking Bad: the desert as a cultural oasis 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z The first track from their third album hooks around a single, strangulated riff that sounds a bit like Room on Fire-era Strokes rendered as a polyphonic ringtone. 50 great tracks for June from Christine and the Queens, Playboi Carti, the 1975 and more 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z In 2015 she won the Nobel prize in literature “for her polyphonic writings”. Remembering the Great Patriotic War was a political act 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Seeing the show is like being lost in a foreign but strangely familiar city, where polyphonic disembodied voices whisper, yell, or sputter wit and wisdom that you’re rarely sure that you heard quite right. The Enigmatic Art of Raymond Pettibon 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Georgian singer and songwriter Melua has drafted the choral ensemble from her homeland to provide distinctive polyphonic harmonies to several of the tracks here. Holiday album roundup 2016: Garth, R. Kelly, Neil Diamond and more 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Those include their ancient polyphonic singing, recently recognized on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. A Fairytale Kingdom Faces Real-Life Troubles 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Other figures, such as Solomone Rossi, became musicians, incorporating the polyphonic techniques of Catholic Church services into Hebrew songs and psalms. What Life Was Like in the World’s First Ghetto 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z This is a game that speaks in plaintive accordion tunes and whispers, airy sighs and polyphonic hoots, that marries quirky activities with starlit encounters and aquamarine serpents plucked from Norwegian myth. Review: 'Burly Men at Sea' Is a Whimsical Romp Worth Taking 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The tale of the Tsimane’ should remind us that Western music was not always as richly polyphonic as it is now. The people who don’t get ‘Eleanor Rigby’ 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Apple’s own Garage Band app will soon support 3D Touch and will simulate an electronic keyboard with polyphonic aftertouch, which uses sensors in each key to adjust sound based on pressure. New 3D Touch apps on iPhone hint at future beyond Peek and Pop 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z She was praised by the Swedish Academy for “her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” 3 books by Nobel winner Alexievich coming out in US 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z She was praised by the Swedish Academy for "her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." 3 books by Nobel winner Svetlana Alexievich coming out in US, starting next year 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z She remained true to her documentary style, and it was that multitude of voices that persuaded the Nobel Committee to honour her "polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". Svetlana Alexievich: Exposing stark Soviet realities - BBC News 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z In its brief citation the Swedish Academy, cited Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel literature prize for depictions of suffering 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z I have to admit that the fourth or fifth time around, the polyphonic madrigals and brass band anthems are starting to get to me. Is the Holy Spirit living in Africa? - BBC News 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z He noticed, for example, that polyphonic choral singing flourished in matriarchal societies, which also cherished purity of vocal tone. Musicians and writers choose their favourite book about music 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z "I think we were interested in, for lack of a better term, polyphonic structure," the director said. At Cannes, Norway's Trier maps complex US family drama 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z “I think we were interested in, for lack of a better term, polyphonic structure,” the director said. At Cannes, Norway’s Trier maps complex US family drama 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z "A guitar in its nature is a polyphonic instrument. Yet for several reasons, including cost, you lose all the polyphony," he says. Estonia: From Skype to scooters 2014-02-23T23:57:23Z The entire history of polyphonic music to choose from, and she picks the score from a sequel to a French slapstick movie? Sports: Women’s Figure Skating Live Updates 2014-02-20T16:31:25Z Millions of cell phones echoed the monophonic and polyphonic version as the default ring tone. What's The Story Behind The iPhone's Default "Marimba" Ringtone? 2013-04-30T15:07:28Z It is a technique used in ceremonies by polyphonic groups of women in the rivers. India Ink: Portraits From the Kochi Biennale: Video Artist Angelica Mesiti 2012-12-17T10:08:17Z The sheer number of Hindus in India suggested that, if they chose to, radical elements could create a different kind of nation to the diverse, polyphonic one envisaged at independence. Viewpoint: How India moved on from Ayodhya 2012-12-06T02:55:47Z So for tonight, the politics are set aside, the toasts to international friendship carry on, and emotional songs are sung in the heartrending polyphonic style unique to Georgia - and all in Russian. On holiday with 'the enemy' 2012-06-03T00:54:44Z The entire history of polyphonic music to choose from and she picks the score to an artsy psychosexual horror film? Sports: Women’s Figure Skating Live Updates 2014-02-20T16:31:25Z He knew well the nature of the instrument, its old-fashioned single-tone effects on the one hand, its full harmonic power and polyphonic capabilities on the other. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Presently the system of polyphonic music arises, in which several voices sing different melodies so arranged as not to jar with each other. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z A passive rôle is Sanine's in the composition of this elaborate canvas, the surface simplicity of which deceives us as to its polyphonic complexity. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Acis and Galatea, Semele and Hercules, are in fact secular oratorios; the choral music in them is not ecclesiastical, but it is large, independent and polyphonic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z This orchestra, seldom elaborate in thematic exfoliation, and still less frequently polyphonic in texture, is, for the most part, a voice that speaks in hints and through allusions. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z No one except a German has ever written a true sonata or a symphony, in the true polyphonic German style. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z The subtleties of polyphonic music and the spatial "stereo" effect of the split choirs are jumbled and lost in the rumbling echoes of the vast, lofty chambers. Venetian Acoustics Rediscovered 2011-11-01T22:22:53Z His ten digits are ten independent voices recreating the ancient polyphonic art of the Flemings. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z His polyphonic scholarship was more “antiquated” in the 18th century than it is in the 20th. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z The design of his music is essentially of a polyphonic character, and the working out and interweaving of his themes betray the musician of high scholarship. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z The themes employed are most impressive, thoroughly characteristic, and well adapted for polyphonic treatment. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z “Confusion worse confounded,” is, so far as the eye is concerned, hardly too strong a term to apply to the results of this illogical method when applied to polyphonic music. How to Write Music Musical Orthography 2011-09-01T02:00:19.133Z The music, which by its dignity and beauty had alone prevented the Council of Trent from prohibiting polyphonic music at the Mass, had a marvellous appeal to the Esquire. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z The easiest solution would have been to use some such polyphonic instrument as the piano or harmonium. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z He is polyphonic in orchestral treatment, and at the same time thoroughly pianistic. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z Probably we need not better reply than this to the high claims made for the French form known as polyphonic verse. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z It embodied all that was noblest in the polyphonic style developed by the Netherlands school. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Forkel was also a student of the music of the polyphonic school. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z I began a score which required massed polyphonic effects: a mechanical piano and an electrically driven harmonium, a section of percussion instruments, and two Hungarian cymbalons. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z The effect was far from musical, but to Liszt it was the key to the polyphonic effects which he wished to produce. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z On the other hand, in triple counterpoint the necessity for strictness is at its greatest, because there are only six possible inversions, and in a long polyphonic work most of these will be required. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" The polyphonic writing is matchless in its evenness; every part is as good as every other part. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Although by Bach’s time the concerto as a polyphonic instrumental form was thoroughly established, the term frequently appears in the autograph title-pages of his church cantatas, even when the cantata contains no instrumental prelude. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" Whereas these compositions were written for ensembles of instruments of greater or less importance, I wanted to condense mine into a small number of movements for one polyphonic instrument. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z Thus the musical requirements of polyphonic interpretation were artistically fulfilled. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z His pattern of narration has always been of an evasive character; here the method is carried to the pitch of polyphonic intricacy. Ivory Apes and Peacocks It is still an unsatisfied wish of accurate musicians that the term fugue should be used to imply rather a certain type of polyphonic texture than the whole form of a composition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" Though there is little polyphonic treatment, it holds our interest by reason of the harmonic variety and the dramatic touches of orchestration. Music: An Art and a Language And then the pleasure of immersing oneself again in the multisonorous euphony of strings and making it penetrate even the furthest fibers of the polyphonic web! An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z The conscious part has to do with dressing the inspiration in its most appropriate harmonic, polyphonic, and rhythmic garments. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression Sebastian Bach thus inherited the artistic tradition of a united family whose circumstances had deprived them of the distractions of the century of musical fermentation which in the rest of Europe had destroyed polyphonic music. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" In polyphonic music containing imitative passages, the part having the subject must be louder than the rest, especially at its first entrance. Essentials in Conducting The Development, based upon the second theme, with some effective canonic treatment, shows that Schubert was by no means entirely lacking in polyphonic skill. Music: An Art and a Language Meanwhile the tempo gradually accelerates, and the polyphonic texture is helped out by reminiscences of the themes of brooding and of lamentation. A Book of Burlesques Indeed the music of the Dark Continent is rich in polyphonic as well as rhythmic suggestions for the European. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 The Gloria begins with a triumphant polyphonic chorus accompanied by a spirited symphony for strings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Apart from the interesting experiments in free verse or polyphonic prose, the short story in America is at a low ebb. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story We likewise find, beginning with the third brace, some characteristic polyphonic imitations which give to the movement a remarkable concentration. Music: An Art and a Language The polyphonic compositions of the schools in consideration in the present chapter go farther than this. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present I came near worshiping Wagner, the early Wagner, and today I am willing to acknowledge that Die Meistersinger is the very apex of a modern polyphonic score. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Second, the solo parts were constructed according to the method developed by the lutenists, who devised a manner of singing one part of a polyphonic composition and utilizing the other parts as the instrumental support. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera Both men went to school to Bach and the polyphonic masters. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Every modulatory, rhythmic and polyphonic device is employed to vary and intensify the message; yet, notwithstanding the diversity of the material, we are held spellbound by the directness and coherence of the thought. Music: An Art and a Language The beginnings of contrapuntal and polyphonic music have been traced to what is now known as the old French school, having its active period between about 1100 and 1370, or thereabouts. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Counterpoint, canon, round, fugue, etc., are all polyphonic in style. Music Notation and Terminology Perhaps the unsuitability of polyphonic composition might have made itself clear earlier than it did, had not the general state of Italian 209 thought and taste moved in a direction making this impossible. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera All this polyphonic allusiveness, this intricate fuguing of ideas, is not to be confused, remember, with the hollow showiness of the academic soothsayer. A Book of Prefaces In point of texture they illustrate that happy combination, which Schumann worked out, of lyric melo175dies on a firmly knit polyphonic basis. Music: An Art and a Language The most eminent development of the polyphonic school, and at the same time the dawn of a better era in church music, took place in Rome, where the influence of the Netherlandish composer is noticeable. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present The word contrapuntal is often used synonymously with polyphonic. Music Notation and Terminology We shall in another place in this work examine the methods of the lutenists and singers of the fifteenth century in adapting polyphonic compositions to delivery by a single voice with accompaniment of an instrument. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera Unrhythmical singing could not always hold its own; and when polyphonic music came into public favor, secular airs gradually found their way into the choirs. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes This piece is a happy illustration of the intensity of meaning and the conciseness of structure which Schumann gained by the application of polyphonic imitation. Music: An Art and a Language A madrigal was a secular composition, generally devoted to love, but in polyphonic style, and in one of the ecclesiastical modes. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present It is written in monophonic rather than in polyphonic style, thus differing from the madrigal and glee. Music Notation and Terminology On the other was the widespread taste for part singing and the constantly growing skill of composers in adapting to secular ideas the polyphonic science of the church. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera He was master of polyphonic music as well as plain-song, and he proposed applying it to grace the older mode, preserving the solemn beauty of the chant but adding the charming chords of counterpoint. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes The strong polyphonic treatment of the first theme, beginning in measure 120 and sustained with unflagging energy for seventy measures, makes this one of the most stimulating developments in symphonic literature, not excepting Beethoven himself. Music: An Art and a Language The music of Schütz is always polyphonic, but there is much of dramatic feeling in it, nevertheless. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and the later writers have used the monophonic style more than the polyphonic, although a combination of the two is often found, as e.g., in the later works of Beethoven. Music Notation and Terminology Finally, Palestrina demonstrated the scope of polyphonic music in the expression of religious 157 emotions at times bordering upon the dramatic in their poignancy. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera Skill in following the accent and unequal rhythms produces a melodious tone-poem, and completes the impression of Bonar's singular but sweet lyric of hope which suggests a chant-choral rather than a regular polyphonic harmony. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes These should be played over and studied until they are thoroughly familiar—not only for the pleasure to be derived, but for the indispensable training afforded in polyphonic listening. Music: An Art and a Language The great Bach infused this into his fugues, the highest manifestation of the contrapuntal, or polyphonic music of old. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music The rigorous, polyphonic style of his illustrious father was succeeded by the lyrical and singing element, which, if fantastic and daring, had a sweet, bright charm very fascinating. Great Violinists And Pianists Partly by reason of the confusion caused by obedience to old polyphonic customs in making the accompaniments, and 214 partly because the madrigal had become a field for the display of vocal agility. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera His ardent prayer to heaven is naturally expressed by a well-known Chorale, supported by most effective polyphonic harmony. The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development They are very frequent in all polyphonic composition, give a strong sense of unity to melodic progression and are generally carried out in groups of three, i.e., the original figure and two repetitions. Music: An Art and a Language Viewed rightly, this suits the modern democratic instinct, and there is to-day a tendency to return to polyphonic writing. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music So, in the history of civilizations, sculpture developed early, after poetry, but with architecture, and before painting and polyphonic music. Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects The rapid expansion of the florid element in the polyphonic music of the composers indicates to us that the improvised descant of the singer had a sensible influence. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera Then follows a short Allegro in three-four time, of polyphonic character. The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development In regard to any work of large dimensions the final test is this: can we sing all the themes and follow them in their polyphonic development? Music: An Art and a Language Infusing his own vital emotions into polyphonic forms he gave the piano far grander tone-pictures than those of Couperin. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music But the dance tunes of the time, on which, perhaps, erudition was not used sufficiently, were written in the same polyphonic style and with the same rigid correctness as the madrigals and the church music. Musical Memories He threw aside the polyphonic style of his father and strove to give his music new colour and warmth by means of harmony and modulation. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Monteverde had been trained in the polyphonic school of Palestrina, but his genius had never acquiesced in the rules and restrictions in which the older masters delighted. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. We can now begin to realize the importance of polyphonic music. Music: An Art and a Language The art music of the time was polyphonic, that is, constructed by so interweaving melodies that harmonies resulted. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music I thoroughly believe in the value of polyphonic music as a mental study; it is a necessity. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers His polyphonic style and interweaving themes demand close study in order to make the meaning clear. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Although Franck only avails himself of guiding themes to a limited extent, in mastery of the polyphonic style his work will compare with Wagner's most elaborate scores. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Many of the English Suites begin with an elaborate polyphonic Prelude. Music: An Art and a Language He did not succeed, however, in satisfying the Academicians with his attempt to grasp the medium between speech and song, and his choruses were thought tedious because of their employment of the intricate polyphonic style. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music I institute quite early what I call polyphonic technic—one hand doing a different movement or touch from the other. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers We are talking here about Christianity, open sea navigation, the heliocentric model of the Universe, polyphonic music, Newton's Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics and Relativity theory. The Brain, A Decoded Enigma The old polyphonic music differed from the newer harmonic music in three respects: 1. Purcell The canon really tells and shows that Berlioz, as is often alleged, was not altogether lacking in polyphonic skill. Music: An Art and a Language In the musical reference monophonic music means music of one voice, rather than of one tone, and polyphonic music is that for many voices. Music Talks with Children In addition to the plangency of his chord combinations, as such, his polyphonic skill is responsible for much of the solidity of his fabric. Edward MacDowell The European polyphonic music is one of the results of the "marriage" between image and symbolic models in music. The Brain, A Decoded Enigma During this period the old style of polyphonic music went out and the new came in. Purcell The polyphonic imitation of the descending motive of measure 5 makes clear that this measure has two repetitions. Music: An Art and a Language There have never lived greater masters than these in the art of polyphonic music. Music Talks with Children This method of "imitation" was employed by all the polyphonic composers. Haydn Bruckner's pristine polyphonic manner ever appears in the double strain of melodies, where each complements, though not completes the other. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies In one composition alone, "The Memphis Blues," the musician will find not only great melodic beauty, but a polyphonic structure that is amazing. The Book of American Negro Poetry We are now prepared to explain the characteristics of polyphonic music and then to analyze some typical examples from Bach and other polyphonic composers. Music: An Art and a Language Simple melodies with or without accompanying chords are monophonic; many melodies woven together, as in the Bach piece which we have looked over, are polyphonic. Music Talks with Children This is the first attempt to present the limitations of the modern monogamous system in its true polyphonic perspective, several huge editions having been exhausted before publication. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919 A good many of the poems in this book are written in "polyphonic prose". Men, Women and Ghosts He was finding that many of the popu- lar rock guitarists were playing lead riffs that had a genealogy which sprang from Indian polyphonic sitar strains. Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel The essential difference between homophonic and polyphonic style is implied by the terms35 themselves. Music: An Art and a Language In the history of music two men surpassed all others in what they accomplished in counterpoint—that is, in polyphonic writing. Music Talks with Children Greek oratory even employed rhyme in highly colored passages, precisely as Miss Amy Lowell uses rhyme in her polyphonic or "many-voiced" prose. A Study of Poetry There is everything in fact except polyphonic prose, and although I am afraid she loves her experiments in that form, they are the portion of her complete works that I could most willingly let die. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century He explored the relationships between Eastern polyphonic scales and the Western twelve note scale. Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel They are merely little pieces—a "tour de force" in polyphonic ingenuity; music rejoicing in its own inherent vitality. Music: An Art and a Language During Lent we sang, unaccompanied, Palestrina and Vittoria, and this sixteenth-century polyphonic music requires singing with such exactitude that it needs the utmost concentration and sustained attention, if the results are to be satisfactory. Here, There and Everywhere He came to the first passage—the motive among blossoms and leaves—a figurated recurrence to the principal theme is in the inner parts—its polyphonic variant. Chopin : the Man and His Music Her most ambitious attempt in polyphonic prose is Guns as Keys: and the Great Gate Swings, whereof the title is like a trumpet fanfare. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Ahriman can stand some polyphonic phrases, and this is an occasion where one may rant and rage away quite comfortably. Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso The hearer94 is conducted through a musical excursion; every device of rhythmic variety, of modulatory change and polyphonic imitation being employed to enhance the beauty of the themes and to reveal their latent possibilities. Music: An Art and a Language The second-year class concerns itself with "the thematic and polyphonic melody, the larger forms, harmony in its aesthetic bearings, the aesthetic effects of the more complicated rhythms, comparative criticism and the various schools of composition." The Story of Wellesley Compared with him Bach seems a maker of solid polyphonic prose, Beethoven a scooper of stars, a master of growling storms, Mozart a weaver of gay tapestries, Schumann a divine stammerer. Chopin : the Man and His Music Perhaps we could say of the polyphonic people that they are well versed in prose. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Stress is laid in the above text on the polyphonic aspect merely to emphasize the matter under discussion. Music: An Art and a Language For Mozart, as a master of polyphonic treatment, is second only to Bach. Music: An Art and a Language The closing portion, beginning at measure 71, is an example of Mozart's spontaneous skill in polyphonic writing. Music: An Art and a Language The Magic Flute Overture is also noteworthy because of the polyphonic treatment of the first theme which is a definite fugal presentation in four voices. Music: An Art and a Language To be sure, the first one, The Hotel, is in a kind of polyphonic prose, but it is not at all a fair sample of the contents. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Lowell, Amy, essay on Frost; poems; training; free verse; imagism; Sword Blades; narrative skill; polyphonic prose; versatility; remark on Seeger. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Certainly no greater mistake can be made than that of considering Bach, the supreme master of polyphonic writing, as too austere, too involved, for the delight and edification of every-day mortals. Music: An Art and a Language |
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