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polyphonic

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polyphonic

The ability to play back some number of musical notes simultaneously. For example, 16-voice polyphony means a total of 16 notes, or waveforms, can be played concurrently.


polyphonic
Music composed of relatively independent melodic lines or parts; contrapuntal


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Dear Maestro, you have offered to me and to all of us a precious gift, preparing the program in which you wisely situated a choice of masterpieces by the 'prince' of sacred polyphonic music and some of the works that you yourself have composed.
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She discusses instruments early in the process, followed by time and rhythm and then by the melody and polyphonic elements, which she collects under the rubric pitch.
 
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