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  • noun Plural form of polyphonist.

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Examples

  • There was clearly a real sense of rivalry in their efforts to engage the most renowned Flemish polyphonists for their courts and churches.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

  • Lobo (1565 - 1646) is considered the greatest of the Portugese polyphonists.

    May 4-6: AVE benefit concert for Darfur Celeste Winant 2007

  • Lobo (1565 - 1646) is considered the greatest of the Portugese polyphonists.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Celeste Winant 2007

  • It is the high-water mark of all Church music after the polyphonists.

    Purcell Runciman, John F 1909

  • The old polyphonists he never tried to rival, but in the style of music he wrote no composer has gone or can go higher than he.

    Purcell Runciman, John F 1909

  • There is no difference between the sacred motets and the secular madrigals of the early polyphonists.

    Purcell Runciman, John F 1909

  • There is no difference between the sacred motets and the secular madrigals of the early polyphonists.

    Purcell John F. Runciman 1891

  • The old polyphonists he never tried to rival, but in the style of music he wrote no composer has gone or can go higher than he.

    Purcell John F. Runciman 1891

  • It is the high-water mark of all Church music after the polyphonists.

    Purcell John F. Runciman 1891

  • In writing the flattened leading note in one part against the sharpened in another he was merely following the polyphonists, and it sounds as well ” nay, as beautiful ” as any other discord, or the same discord on another degree of the scale. [

    Purcell Runciman, John F 1909

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