Associations to the word «Polyphony»

Wiktionary

POLYPHONY, noun. (music) Musical texture consisting of several independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).

Dictionary definition

POLYPHONY, noun. Music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope