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as in harmonic
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Recent Examples of polyphonic
Byrd is the word: Revel in the polyphonic glories of William Byrd, perhaps the greatest and certainly most influential of all the English Renaissance composers, in a setting that surely would have felt home to him, as a composer of sacred songs.
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Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 17 July 2025
The end result is a polyphonic spree of subcontinental flavors.
—Jordan Michelman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 July 2025
The album is almost entirely instrumental, featuring a polyphonic blend of percussion, strings, keyboards, synths, and woodwinds, with André’s flute driving the downbeat.
—Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
In turn, her fiction felt lively and polyphonic.
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
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Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 17 July 2025
The end result is a polyphonic spree of subcontinental flavors.
—Jordan Michelman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 July 2025
The album is almost entirely instrumental, featuring a polyphonic blend of percussion, strings, keyboards, synths, and woodwinds, with André’s flute driving the downbeat.
—Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
In turn, her fiction felt lively and polyphonic.
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polyphonic
Adjective
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Using this approach, the team demonstrated arbitrary pulse shaping, tunable second-harmonic generation, holographic generation of spatio-spectrally structured light, and real-time inverse design of nonlinear-optical functions.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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His music, stuffed with live instrumentation and harmonic sophistication, is suffused with the sound and spirit of Sly Stone, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye, among many others.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
3 Oct. 2024
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The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
1 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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Proudfoot and his team, including Kris Bowers, pull all the right (if predictable) emotional strings, underscoring Hesse’s memories with majestic orchestral music fit for an Old Hollywood epic.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
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Both Varèse and Ives create simulacra of modern disorder, setting orchestral groups against one another until pitch disappears into noise.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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On April 12, 1962, Black men, women, and children packed into Philadelphia’s Times Auditorium and milled about to the low, rhythmic beating of African drums until the lights dimmed and Moore took the stage.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Communication, at its best, has always been aural, emotional, rhythmic and alive, not just letters on a screen.—
Chris Schembra,
Rolling Stone,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The abrupt tonal shift left some MLB viewers confused, sparking an online conversation.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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Talamasca does feel different from Mayfair and Interview, but there are still genre and tonal similarities.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Hudson buttressed Al Kooper’s original organ part into a chordal fortress, part of an incendiary performance that surges to peak after peak.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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The Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi set Psalm 112 in Hebrew, in mainly chordal antiphony.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas News,
2 Mar. 2020
Adjective
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Bach was lively, supple, and, especially in the Larghetto, generous in its songful musicality.—
Jeremy Eichler,
BostonGlobe.com,
23 Sep. 2022
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In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen.—
Seth Colter Walls,
New York Times,
26 Aug. 2022
Adjective
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Keith Urban is setting the record straight after fans analyzed his lyric swaps post-Nicole Kidman split.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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Nowadays, the musician is encouraging fans to stop reading into his lyric changes.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Polyphonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyphonic. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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