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polyphonist

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Po`lyph´o`nist
n.1.A proficient in the art of multiplying sounds; a ventriloquist.
2.(Mus.) A master of polyphony; a contrapuntist.
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polyphonist
n (Mus) → Polyfoniker(in) m(f), → Kontrapunktiker(in) m(f)


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Narratives of Spanish music of the Renaissance usually start with the court of Isabella and Ferdinand at the end of the fifteenth century--mentioning villancicos by Encina and sacred works by Anchieta--but move quickly into the sixteenth century with Penalosa, to concentrate the discussion on later contributions by vihuelists, such as Milan or Narvaez, and the three great polyphonists Morales, Guerrero, and Victoria.
Thus, admittedly via an abstract assimilation of the forms of the pre-high-tonal polyphonists of the late Renaissance, Webern shows how the serial (diagonal) function poses radical structuring and morphological possibilities.
The wide range of the melodies written down by the polyphonists seems to shrink during a process of oral transmission or recollection that erodes extraordinary musical features and reduces the song to a little ditty in G that begins and ends in the same place.
 
 
 
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