We have all heard it, yet most of us would not be able to name it. The term polyphony (from the Greek for “many sounds”) is used to describe music that employs simultaneous yet independent melodies.
As a small choral group bringing Western sacred music to the Far East, Chinese listeners hearing the unfamiliar sounds of Renaissance-era polyphony for the first time also can experience the Gospel ...
An extraordinarily moving Bach passion contained intensity, radiance and, from Nick Pritchard, the finest live account of the Evangelist this critic has heard Stephen Layton’s annual performance of ...
Grab a pint at the bar and meet Polyphony Down the Pub, a group who love to sing renaissance music in a London watering hole ...
Music can move us from darkness to light. Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico is performing a suite of songs at the Cathedral of St. John on Friday, July 12. The varied program was designed to demonstrate ...
CHOIRS from the Philippines dominate the Polyphony category of this year’s International Habaneras and Polyphony Choir Competition organized by the Patronato Municipal de Habaneras Torrevieja of Spain ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Now in their 14th season, Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico promotes the talent of New Mexico musicians through vocal ensemble performances. They have been providing holiday ...
The angelic choirs must sound something like this, full-throated in song: four strands of voice — soprano, alto, tenor, bass — weaving toward the same destination along different roads of melody. The ...
CHOIRS from the Philippines dominate the Polyphony category of this year’s International Habaneras and Polyphony Choir Competition organized by the Patronato Municipal de Habaneras Torrevieja of Spain ...