NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- Though they’ve made a name for themselves singing music that’s hundreds of years old, the four men of New York Polyphony are unequivocably voices of their own times, not ancient ...

We have all heard it, yet most of us would not be able to name it. The term polyphony (from the Greek for “many sounds”) is used to describe music that employs simultaneous yet independent melodies.

In Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres (The MIT Press, 2017), Peter Pesic examines the shift in Western history from monophonic music — music with one melodic line — to polyphonic music, which ...

The 17th century was the time of the highest flowering of choral musical culture in Russia and Ukraine. This century was also the richest in the variety of musical styles of liturgical music. In the ...

Very early music was written for the human voices and later including instruments performing the same line of music. The music term, polyphony, refers to two or more different melodic lines that are ...

Jul. 9—Music can move us from darkness to light. Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico is performing a suite of songs at the Cathedral of St. John on Friday, July 12. The varied program was designed to ...

Congregation Emanu-El has announced the season launch of the upcoming Cantors' Concert Series on Saturday, December 7 at 7.30 p.m., presenting the San Francisco debut of POLYPHONY, the renowned and ...

The Polyphonic Spree will take the torch from The Passion this summer in the Year of the Robe, as the twenty-five-piece choral pop ensemble releases its second album, Together We’re Heavy (nearly as ...

Editor’s note: To listen along as you read, click the links in the text. These pieces were performed for The Economist by the choir of Jesus College, Cambridge. IN 1605 Charles de Ligny, a Frenchman, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Two leaves with polyphonic music were identified a few decades ago in San Domenico in Bologna, then disappeared, and only recently have some ...