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- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromπολυφωνία
- English todaypolyphony
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πολυφωνία (poluphōnía); equivalent to poly- + -phony.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
polyphony
Today it means: Musical texture consisting of several independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony). Full definition →
Ancient Greek πολυφωνία