what was the first type of polyphony?
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- early polyphony Techniques for spicing up plainchant eventually led to polyphony: music with two or more independent lines. Without compromising the integrity and primacy of the chant line, medieval sacred music explored the following: Organum (natural divisions of octaves occur at fourths and fifths; to the vox principalis was added a line moving at a constant interval and called the vox organalis).
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Whatâs the Most Beautiful Word in English? Euphony is used most commonly to describe the pleasing, agreeable sound effect of poetry. In general, vowel sounds are more euphonious. Cacophony, meaning harsh and discordant, is the opposite of euphony. Cacophony comes from the Greek word parts meaning “bad,” “evil,” and “voice.”.
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- Josquin des Prez is considered to be the first master of the high Renaissance style of polyphonic vocal music. 1  Comments. 2  Report.
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Polyphony Written By: Polyphony, in music, strictly speaking, any music in which two or more tones sound simultaneously (the term derives from the Greek word for “many sounds”); thus, even a single interval made up of two simultaneous tones or a chord of three simultaneous tones is rudimentarily polyphonic.
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Synth Basics: What is polyphony? 3 In pure musical terms, polyphony is used to describe two or more independent melodic voices. This is in contrast to monophony (a single voice) or homophony (a single melody with chords). However, when it comes to electronic musical instruments, we’re simply concerned with how many tones can be sounded at any one time.
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What is monophony, polyphony, homophony, monody etc.? What is monophony, polyphony, homophony, monody etc.? The terms monophony and polyphony have very straight-forward literal meanings. Monophony means music with a single part and a part typically means a single vocal melody, but it could mean a single melody on an instrument of one kind or another.
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What Are Examples of Cacophony? Cacophony is a figure of speech or literary term used to create a special effect with its unpleasant, unmelodious, sharp, hissing or harsh sounds. The word cacophony in Greek actually means bad sounds according to Carson-Newman University. It is the opposite of euphony. Typically, cacophony is used in literature or in speeches to create a negative response or to elicit negative emotions in the reader or in the audience.
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Renaissance Music Timeline 1525 - 1594 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, known as the High Renaissance composer of Counter-Reformation sacred music. During this period Renaissance polyphony reached its height.
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motet a genre of polyphonic vocal music that originated in 12th-century France. Originally, the motet was a musical composition for two voices, consisting of a new voice added to a voice based on refrains in the Catholic service (Gregorian chants).
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heterophony : independent variation on a single melody by two or more voices.
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Cacophony Society (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The Cacophony Society “is a randomly gathered network of free spirits united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society.” It was started in 1986 by surviving members of the now defunct Suicide Club of San Francisco.
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Euphony The use of euphony is predominant in literary prose and poetry, where poetic devices such as alliterations, rhymes and assonace are used to create pleasant sounds. Euphony is the opposite of cacophony, which refers to the creation of unpleasant and harsh sounds by using certain words and phrases together. This literary devices is based on the use and manipulation of phonetics in literature.
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Double bass The modern double bass is not a true member of either the violin or viol families. Most likely its first general shape was that of a violone, the largest member of the viol family. Some of the earliest basses extant are violones, (including C-shaped sound holes) that have been fitted with modern trappings.
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Practice Essentials BPPV was first described by Barany in 1921. The characteristic nystagmus and vertigo associated with positioning changes were attributed at that time to the otolithic organs. In 1952, Dix and Hallpike performed the provocative positional testing named in their honor, shown below.
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Polyphony vs. homophony? When discussing textures like polyphony and homophony, the term is used to refer to a particular part (ie.  the first violin part is a much higher voice than that of the clarinet) Homophony can also mean more than two voices-- as long as one of them is dominant and has the melody, its homophony.
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Earliest known piece of polyphonic music discovered New research has uncovered the earliest known practical piece of polyphonic music, an example of the principles that laid the foundations of European musical tradition. Typically, polyphonic music is seen as having developed from a set of fixed rules and almost mechanical practice.
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- Western musical development has produced three principal types of musical texture: 1  Monophonic texture, music with just one voice; 2  Polyphonic texture, music whose texture is formed by the interweaving of several melodic lines which lines are independent but sound together harmonically; and.
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- Music morphed into ornate, boisterous compositions written by some of history's finest composers and played by huge orchestras. It was too much, too soon, however, and the melodies became lost in multiple musical instruments playing independently -- a technique called polyphony.
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Polyphony vs. homophony? A good example of good polyphony is the 3rd movt of Mahler's 9th symphony. Here is a link to hear this movt. Try to listen for the different voices all going at the same time. It's genius.
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- A musical texture consisting of one melody and an accompaniment that supports it. Homophony is a musical texture of several parts in which one melody predominates; the other parts may be either simple chords or a more elaborate accompaniment pattern.
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History of the Polygraph The first polygraph (lie detector) , suitable for use in criminal investigations, was invented in 1921 by John Augustus Larson (1892-1965) a medical student at the University of California and a police officer of the Berkeley Police Department (Berkeley, California, USA).
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An Introduction to Symphonic Form 1 Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 Pathétique (1893) was one of the first: it has 1) an ordinary first movement, 2) a Brahms-like Intermezzo, 3) a Scherzo in the form of a march instead of a dance, 4) a slow movement at the end, instead of a Finale.  Symphonies in the 20th century have been in a great variety of forms.
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Cacophony (band) The two albums released by Cacophony—Speed Metal Symphony (1987) and Go Off! (1988)—were showpieces of the kind of highly technical playing typical of the 1980s shred era, with songs featuring fast tempos, melodic solos, exotic neoclassical scales and dual guitar harmonizations.
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Motets vs. Madrigals: Music of the Renaissance Era Polyphony is a musical composition that uses simultaneous but multiple independent melodic parts, lines, or voices. During the Renaissance era, polyphonic music became widespread throughout in both sacred and secular settings due to the revival of interest in art and literature. The most favored styles of music during this period was the motet, for sacred topics, and the madrigal, for social themes.
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Music Flutes were among the first musical instruments used. Double flutes were at first made of two parallel pipes, but later the two pipes were separated and set at an acute angle. They are still used in Egypt today.
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IMPROVISATION The technique of Baroque polyphony involves freely independent use of the right and left hand. Since both are operated from an opposite side of the brain, there is a real difference in how the dominant (usually right) hand works as compared with the left.