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6 unusual facts about Polyphony


Albanian iso-polyphony

Among Albanians a related form of polyphonic singing is also found in northern Albania in the area of Peshkopi, the Albanian communities of Kačanik in Kosovo, the areas of Polog, Tetovo, Kičevo and Gostivar in Macedonia and the region of Malësia in northern Albania and southern Montenegro.

Among Albanians, all four regions of Myzeqe, Toskëri, Çamëria, and Labëria have the polyphonic song as part of their culture.

Church of the Sacred Heart, Hove

The Sunday Mass at 11.30am (Missa normativa) is celebrated in English and Latin, and the music includes both Gregorian Chant and the Polyphony of the Renaissance.

Polyphony

Within the context of the Western musical tradition, the term is usually used to refer to music of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Avignon, the seat of the antipopes, was a vigorous center of secular music-making, much of which influenced sacred polyphony.

Renaissance in the Low Countries

In the early Renaissance, polyphonic musicians and composers from the Low Countries, like Johannes Ciconia, were working at all the European courts and churches.


Cecilian Movement

In many serious church musicians, there was a deep-seated desire to revive Chant as well as the Renaissance polyphony of Palestrina, Lassus, Victoria, Anerio, et al., and to rid Masses of the more entertaining, operatic style of music.

Culture of Bulgaria

Many Bulgarian composers (Dobri Hristov, Petar Dinev, etc.) create their works in the spirit of Russian polyphony.

Greeks in Albania

Singers from the Pogon region (as well as in the Greek part of Upper Pogoni) perform a style of polyphony -typically shared with the Albanian and Vlach music of Epirus- that is characterized by a pentatonic structure.

Hosidius Geta

Philip Hardie, "Polyphony or Babel? Hosidius Geta's Medea and the poetics of the cento," in Simon Swain, Stephen Harrison and Jas Elsner (eds), Severan culture (Cambridge, CUP, 2007).

Johann Joseph Fux

He is most famous as the author of Gradus ad Parnassum, a treatise on counterpoint, which has become the single most influential book on the Palestrinian style of Renaissance polyphony.

New York Polyphony

Prior to signing with BIS Records, New York Polyphony released two CDs on the British label Avie Records, I sing the birth (2007) and Tudor City (2010).

In 2011, New York Polyphony signed an exclusive contract with BIS Records.

Robert Majzels

For example, Apikoros Sleuth experimented with a Talmudic form, noted for its polyphonic, discursive, and digressive qualities.

Subaru Alcyone SVX

Also, in Gaming, the Alcyone SVX appeared in various games such as Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo and Bandai Namco's Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune.

Theodore Cyrus Karp

Besides trouvère monophony, Karp has written articles on the polyphony of the schools of Saint Martial's, Santiago de Compostela, and Notre Dame.


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