Polyphonist

  • 11Introduction —    Sacred music is a universal phenomenon of humanity. Where there is faith, there is music to express it. Every major religious tradition and most minor ones have music and have it in abundance and variety. There is music to accompany ritual and …

    Historical dictionary of sacred music

  • 12Koechlin, Charles — (1867 1950)    composer    Born in Paris, Charles Koechlin studied at the École polytechnique, then at the paris Conservatoire (1889), where his teachers were jules massenet and Gabriel fauré. A complex polyphonist, always in classical form,… …

    France. A reference guide from Renaissance to the Present

  • 13Voice — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Voice >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 voice voice Sgm: N 1 vocality vocality Sgm: N 1 organ organ lungs bellows Sgm: N 1 good voice good voice fine voice powerful voice &c.(loud) 404 …

    English dictionary for students

  • 14ventriloquist — n. Polyphonist …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 15polyphony —   n. Music, composition in separate, but simultaneous and harmonizing, parts; counterpoint; Phonetics, use of one symbol for several sounds.    ♦ polyphonic, a.    ♦ polyphonist, n. composer of polyphony …

    Dictionary of difficult words