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Reference Entry

polyphony

Michael Kennedy and Joyce Bourne Kennedy

in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music

Fifth edition

Published in print January 2007 | ISBN: 9780199203833
Published online January 2007 | e-ISBN: 9780191727184
polyphony

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Many sounds. Mus. in which several simultaneous v. or instr. parts are combined contrapuntally, as opposed to monophonic mus. (single

Reference Entry.  51 words. 

Subjects: music

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