polyphony
noun/pəˈlɪfəni/UK
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πολυφωνία (poluphōnía); equivalent to poly- + -phony.
- learned borrowing from πολυφωνία
Definitions
Musical texture consisting of several independent melodic voices, as opposed to music…
Musical texture consisting of several independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).
The quality of a text of being able to be read in more than one way.
- the polyphony of a biblical passage
The neighborhood
- neighborcacophony
- neighborheterophony
- neighborpolyphonal
- neighborpolyphonic
- neighborsymphony
- neighbororchestration
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for polyphony. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA