Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers I institute quite early what I call polyphonic technic - one hand doing a different movement or touch from the other. adjective having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together.adjective of or relating to or characterized by polyphony.adjective having two or more phonetic values.adjective of an electronic device able to play more than one musical note at the same timeįrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.adjective music having two or more independent but harmonic melodies contrapuntal.adjective (Mus.) Consisting of several tone series, or melodic parts, progressing simultaneously according to the laws of counterpoint contrapuntal - opposed to homophonic, or monodic.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.adjective Having a multiplicity of sounds.Also polyphonous.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. Noting an instrument which is capable of producing more than one tone at a time, as an organ or a harp.In music: Noting a method of composition or a work in which two or more voice-parts are simultaneously combined without losing their independent character, but with harmonious effect contrapuntal: opposed on one side to monodic, monophonic, and homophonic, and on another to harmonic: as, a fugue is a polyphonic form of composition.Consisting of or having many voices or sounds.Capable of being read or pronounced in more than one way: said of a written character.adjective Linguistics Having two or more phonetic values.adjective Music Of, relating to, or characterized by polyphony.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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