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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.

Antescofo

It is a modular polyphonic Score Following system as well as a Synchronous Programming language for musical composition.

Antico

Stile antico, the use of Renaissance polyphonic style after around 1600, used in distinction to the stile moderno

Bernhard Heiden

Heiden's music is described by Nicolas Slonimsky, another composer, as "neoclassical in its formal structure, and strongly polyphonic in texture; it is distinguished also by its impeccable formal balance and effective instrumentation."

Credo

The first published polyphonic settings of the Symbolum Apostolorum were settings by the French composer Le Brung in 1540, and two further settings by the Spanish composer Fernando de las Infantas in 1578.

Displacement receiver

Examples of displacement-responding sensors include the mechanical action of tracker organs, as well as the force-sensing resistors found in music keyboards that had polyphonic aftertouch capability.

Frak!

As part of the copy protection, illegal copies would cause a fully polyphonic rendition of Trumpet Hornpipe, the Captain Pugwash theme tune, to play endlessly rather than loading the game properly (Pugwash being a pirate).

Hover Chamber Choir

Hover received the Gold Medal at the International Choir Olympiad in Linz, Austria in 2000, became a prize winner at the International Competition in Tours, France, received diplomas at the International Polyphonic Music Festival in Arezzo, Italy in 1997.

Juan Esquivel Barahona

Since he began his career during a time when Spanish churches were adopting the Roman liturgy as prescribed by the Council of Trent, his music reveals an attempt to reconcile Spanish polyphonic traditions of the sixteenth century with Tridentine preferences for clarity of text and brevity of statement.

Kaddish

Kaddish Shalem is a musical work by Salamone Rossi (1570-c.1628), composed for five voices in homophonic style, the very first polyphonic setting of this text, in his "Hashirim Asher L'Shomo", The Song of Solomon.

Leiden choirbooks

The Leiden choirbooks are six volumes of polyphonic renaissance music of the Franco-Flemish school preserved in the Pieterskerk, Leiden.

Leo Schrade

Schrade's critical editions of works by Guillaume de Machaut, Francesco Landini, and other medieval composers (in the Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century series) are still of utmost importance for early music performers.

Leonius

Léonin (fl. 1150s — d. ? 1201), the first known significant composer of polyphonic organum;

Missa Papae Marcelli

The third and closing sessions of the Council of Trent were held in 1562-63, at which the use of polyphonic music in the Catholic Church was discussed.

Nord Wave

The Nord Wave is a 49-key polyphonic synthesiser developed by Clavia.

Polyphonic Size

In 1987, Polyphonic Size played in Moscow, Irkutsk and Beijing, as part of a cultural exchange between Belgium, USSR and China, turning the Trans-Siberian train into an artistic residence.

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.

Robert Graettinger

Graettinger's radical polystylistic soundworld, with its polyphonic density and bracing atonality, while drawing on ideas previously explored by the likes of Charles Ives, Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and even Arnold Schoenberg, still remains truly distinctive.

Robert Majzels

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

Scott Turkington

Until 2010, he served as organist and choirmaster for the Roman Catholic Basilica of Saint John the Evangelist in Stamford, Connecticut, where he conducted a choir in a program of weekly polyphonic Mass settings and Gregorian chant.

Signore delle cime

The simplicity of the song and its great emotional impact have ensured its inclusion in the repertoire of many polyphonic choirs, such as I Crodaioli of Arzignano, founded by de Marzi.

Slow Traffic to the Right

Bennie Maupin - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, saxello, piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass clarinet, Oberheim Polyphonic synthesizer, background vocals

Toulouse Mass

The Toulouse Mass is a polyphonic 14th-century musical setting of the Mass found in a manuscript in the municipal library of Toulouse.

Wait EP

"Sonic Bloom" is a cover of a song by Tripping Daisy, the former band of three Polyphonic Spree members, Tim DeLaughter, Mark Pirro, and Bryan Wakeland.


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