If you have no stomach for plainsong and church polyphony, steer clear of this recording.
The medieval church knew no choral polyphony, only the ensemble of three or four soloists, drawn from alto, tenor, and baritone voices.
Played here on portative organ, fiddle and harp, the dancing polyphony dazzles and delights.
Certain psalmodic chants also became subject to purely musical elaboration, whether through polyphony or kalophonia.
That innate complementariness is an absolute necessity in painting, just as free meter in poetry or polyphony in music.
Using two iterations, I had nine polyphonic instruments up and running, with polyphony occasionally spilling over 100 notes simultaneously.
The Oratorians have maintained Gregorian chant, polyphony, Latin, the whole nine yards, and it is usually packed for a Sunday high mass.
Symphony No 3 is a more expansive, more fully developed piece which emerged from a protracted period of study of chant and early polyphony.
This frees McFerrin to experiment with musical forms ranging from Medieval polyphony to African folk music.
Percussion and even the early harp played no part in the great development from monody to polyphony.
The rhythmic polyphony and shifting patterns build, with a Stravinskian blend of wildness and subtlety, to memorable climaxes.
If you expect to exceed the polyphony limits of your keyboard with any regularity, check out what it does when you push the envelope.
In effect, your keyboard can now be played with polyphony as high as the number of channels selected for Jazz Edit mode.
Because polyphony is restricted pop and rock music demonstrates limited harmony and use of counterpoint.
Lassus' polyphony conjures up the pain of desolation and fear, but at the same time whispers a message of hope.
Weaving together our voices and choices with those of the people we meet, we compose a polyphony of thoughts.
For almost two centuries, generations of polyphonists refined vocal polyphony while an independent instrumental repertoire also developed.
Plainchant melodies, or sections of them, were taken as cantus firmi in the earliest forms of polyphony and in the 13th and 14th-century motet and some early mass movements.
There is, in this concern for self-effacement where the polyphony of being is affirmed, a contemporary life finding its justification.
The characteristic feature of Georgian folk music is polyphony.
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Conversely the search for polyphony and the imitation of national styles bear witness to a certain attachment to the language of the baroque.
A few pieces of Italian polyphony and a couple of madrigals into their first rehearsal, someone pointed out that they had a concert coming up but no conductor.
There could be a common concept of European art if it accepts the polyphony of voices and identities existing in Europe.
Sunlight is streaming through the dusty windows and the hallways are filled with a polyphony of young voices on their way to class.
It features excellent sound quality, 128-voice polyphony, 76-note semi-weighted action and an easy-to-use interface.
Through the work of Johann Fux, the Renaissance style of polyphony was made the basis for the study of composition for future musical eras.
Congregational psalm singing replaced the elaborate polyphony of trained choirs.
Sardinia is home to one of the oldest forms of vocal polyphony, generally known as cantu a tenore.
While the new technique of polyphony was developing in the West, the Eastern Orthodox Church resisted any type of change.
The only restrictions actually given by the 22nd session was to keep secular elements out of the music, making polyphony implicitly allowed.
But Ferdinand was most likely an alarmist and read into the Council the possibility of a total ban on polyphony.
The Pope Marcellus Mass, in short, was not important in its own day and did not help save church polyphony.
Peter's was the employment of musicians adept in polyphony and trained in the choir schools of northern France and the Low Countries.
They observe that a polyphony rather than cacophony of definitions and attitudes defined how work and workers were valorized and devalorized.
Rather, it points to a more complex realm of understanding in which meaning exists in the polymorphy and polyphony of multiple perspectives.
It obtains its special character through the use of compositional techniques of ancient classical vocal polyphony, which are combined with functional harmony and expressive, songlike voice-leading.
Written in an extremely personal musical language combining medieval polyphony with Debussy's tone colors, Migot's ½uvre is an expression of rigorous, humane, and profound thought.
The repertoire of the Cappella Musicale, exclusively composed of sacred and church music, ranges from Gregorian chants to contemporary music, with special attention to Renaissance and modern polyphony.
Music also holds a supereminent position in the classical liturgy: Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony have developed in the course of the centuries in order to serve and to embellish it.
Expansive use of double choirs and effective combinations of sound with well-judged musical rhetoric clearly point back to classical vocal polyphony and the vocal music of the baroque age as models.
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Thus, the otherwise homophonic Gogo people employ polyphonic techniques in their saigwa and msunyunho songs, and Nyakyusa children of southwestern Tanzania use yodel and polyphony in a song type called kibota.
Not only was he protector of the Sistine Chapel Choir, but he was also at the forefront of the late Renaissance shift from medieval polyphony to monody.
He was able to express musically the drama of the requiem by finding a balance between a supple polyphony, without much imitation, and a more declamatory and sometimes completely homophonic style.
Fauxbourdon was, therefore, an important element in the transition from the medieval emphasis on perfect consonants to the euphony that characterized the a cappella polyphony of the Humanist era.
The European Union must therefore persist in our efforts to achieve greater coordination in order to speak with one voice, or at least orchestrate our polyphony.
When Marie left home to go to art college she found that she missed her daily dose of vocal polyphony so much that she started singing a cappella with a group of friends.
Stylish launch into the world of music: with 128-voice polyphony, 11 AiF timbres and a new design housing, the PX-120 provides a simple and extremely elegant launch into the world of music.
We also grasp the fact that this polyphony could be the political answer to the segregationist dead-end of community confinement, to the nihilistic aberration of these fixations on identity characteristic of the global era.
Tracts written in verse on music, which were used for study, contained a presentation of musical score and descriptions of the main forms of polyphony at that time.
Vocal polyphony may occur in special ways.
Mozart's exposure to Europe's main musical currents led him to synthesize the playful Italian homophonic and operatic style with serious German polyphony.
For performers and performance, perhaps the most important developments in the wake of polyphony were refinements of rhythmic notation necessary to keep independent melodic lines synchronous.
With 128-note polyphony and three foot pedals that include the damper half pedal effect, the instrument delivers the full nuance of an acoustic instrument.
To achieve this, he has to transmit, thus assuring their continuity, the principles of composition that are the true essence of his art: polyphony and counterpoint.
The evolution of court orchestras, which were the main vehicle for the development of European polyphony in the 15th and 16th centuries, was restricted for a time.
A pioneer of polyphony, counterpoint, and improvisation, pianist and composer Dave Brubeck is a genuine living legend who took the genre to new summits of style and popularity.
The elementary form of simple polyphony was also common op to a point, in collegiate churches where it was given a place besides plainchant and complex polyphony.
Stereo premium voices operate at a maximum polyphony of 20 notes.
This seems to matter not a whit given the crispness of ensemble, unanimity of tone and artistic expressiveness demonstrated in the ten works of Tudor polyphony featured here.
Features include sound EFX sampler, built-in microphone, step-up learning system, 400 keyboard voices, 48 note polyphony, 150 rhythms, and 110 songs.
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Availing himself of musicological and philological analytic tools, Ciabattoni demonstrates how polyphony held a role of primary importance in Dante's poetic strategy.
The idea that the Council called to remove all polyphony from the church is widespread, but there is no documentary evidence to support that claim.

The polyphony of the vocal parts is masterly and the melodic flow most charming.
None but a master of polyphony could have attempted to express in music what Richard Strauss has expressed.
Yet again, he talks vaguely of the intricate polyphony of a cosmic orchestra, cacophonous to our dull ears.
This does not imply that Chopin had any particular genius in counterpoint, but to deny his mastery of polyphony is a grave error.
The art of polyphony is to be understood as an effort toward variety and unity combined.
His polyphony is clearer, his tone, always big, is more sonorous and individual.
He was a fine master of polyphony, and as a genuine composer is second only to Byrde.
But soon this discord was lost amid the massive Teutonic polyphony of well-being.
It is the polyphony in the sections of storm and stress that goes wrong.
The polyphony was simple and the aim of the composition was popularity.

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