Exempel på polyphony

• There are almost no technological grounds to withhold wax tablets from the hands of composers of polyphony anytime from the eleventh to the fifteenth century.

• Organum probably refers to early vocal polyphony, although the term can also suggest the instrument of the same name.

• There the mellifluous voices of choirboys, the harmony of improvised polyphony, and the cadences of locally composed plainchant incited the populace to veneration.

• This meant in a certain way translating a virtual, implicit polyphony into a real, explicit one.

• Because of the multitude and layering or 'polyphony' of compositional gestures, there was a multitude of mappings.

• Indeed, the most comprehensive witnesses to this form of adaptation are not chant books at all, but rather contemporary collections of liturgical polyphony.

• Using these observations as our paradigm, we developed an interactive computer system to expand the concept of polyphony to harmonic clusters.

• In general, polyphony and newly composed pieces were restricted to the elite.

• A polyphony thus develops, which becomes richer as the new reference points overtake the accumulated delayed voices.

• None of the contributions concerns either polyphony or secular music-making; the focus is on the history of plainchant and liturgy.

• Especially adept at polyphony, he was noted for learned, at times complex, but often accessible pieces, particularly church music.

• The last two sections are both centred around the relation between notation and polyphony and the systems of modal and mensural notation.

• In short, canons at the unison are children's 'rounds' by which they could sing their first imitative polyphony.

• Given the rise of polyphony in the period, this allowed the expansion of both music and the musicians' economic, social and professional status.

• That was musical skill and, in particular, the skill of performing composed polyphony.