polyphonic

• “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

• “The specialization here is mostly in polyphonic choral music, and, looking through their repertoire, it is dovetails our own pretty closely.”

  Schola Cantorum Jubilate, Malta

• “In general they may be defined as polyphonic church songs which were to be sung”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “Before that time vocal music was generally polyphonic, that is, for several voices; and a contrapuntal style of music had been introduced into Italy from the Netherlands, which was so complicated and artificial that the poetic text had no chance whatever of asserting its rights and being understood.”

  Chopin and Other Musical Essays

• “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

• “The basic problem is that most music is polyphonic - in other words, it's made up of several instruments plus percussion and possibly vocals as well.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “This would produce a separate audio output for each string, which can be mixed together, or processed separately for interesting effect (called a polyphonic pickup).”

  MAKE Magazine

• “A "space symphony" (a kind of more complex and "polyphonic" space opera) about alternate ways of human civilizations 'and personal evolution; different "energetic civilizations", exploration of many planets in the Galaxy, human's body transformation to the wave form, space battles, adventures and etc.”

  MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F (Part III)

• “Nevertheless, it was Bakhtin who taught us – and Williams reinforces the message in innumerable bits of valuable close reading of the texts – that Dostoevsky is an essentially "polyphonic" writer.”

  The Archbishop's Dostoevsky - TLS

• “If there is a lack in Williams's rich book – and it will certainly be enjoyed by a wide audience and stimulate an eager rereading of Dostoevsky – it is not that it fails to refer to Dostoevsky's journalism (there is plenty of ripe reference to A Writer's Diary), but that it does not confront the problem which this journalism presents to the "polyphonic" reading of the novels.”

  The Archbishop's Dostoevsky - TLS

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