polyphony

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The children have their own afflictions, as does the husband-to-be, all shared in a polyphony of severed tongues.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2023

The young composer Oleh Shudeiko, who performs as Heinali, livestreamed from a Lviv bomb shelter his gossamer adaptations of medieval polyphony for modular synthesizers.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2022

Later, polyphony became increasingly common – when two, three or four voices would each sing different melodies, adding to the complexity of the sound.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2022

Soon the others start to sing, too, their voices overlapping to create a rapturous polyphony.

From Scientific American • May 23, 2022

By the end of the fourteenth century, nearly all of music’s vital components had been discovered: notation, both melodic and rhythmic; structural organisation; and polyphony, the layering of voices on top of one another.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall