Epsom and Ewell
Epsom and Ewell , city and district (1991 pop. 66,000), Surrey, SE England. Epsom salts were first prepared in 1618 from the mineral waters there. Epsom was a popular spa in the 17th and 18th cent. It is also famous for horse racing at Epsom Downs, where the Derby and the Oaks are run. Epsom College, a public school, was founded in 1853.
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Early polyphony to 1300. (Sound Recording Reviews).
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...music was chant--a single melodic line. Polyphony began when a second melodic line was added to...elaboration of the harmonic aspect of music. EARLIEST POLYPHONY The earliest notated polyphony is found in theoretical treatises, Musica enchiriadis...
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The Oldest Extant Part Music and the Origin of Western Polyphony, 2 vols.
Magazine article from: Notes; 9/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Part Music and the Origins of Western Polyphony is the latest in Hendrik van der Werf...volume I consider the repertory of early polyphony in a variety of broad historical and...of St. Martial, or "Aquitainian" polyphony (British Library Add. 36 881; Paris...
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Plainsong in the Age of Polyphony.
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...centuries after the proliferation of sacred polyphony. Most of the essays explore, albeit...the relationship between plainchant and polyphony to the extent that it is apparent from...essays, John Caldwell's "Plainsong and Polyphony, 1250--1550," surveys the state...
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The Polyphony of Saint Martial and Santiago de Compostela, 2 vols.
Magazine article from: Notes; 6/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...repertory of the Magnus liber organi and the polyphony that preceded it. Many specialists saw...Karp's approach in his imposing The Polyphony of Saint Martial and Santiago de Compostela...340-62; Leo Treitler's "The Polyphony of St. Martial," Journal of the American...
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Taiwanese Inventors Develop Polyphony Number Determination Method
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/29/2007; 479 words
; ...Yuan of Dali, Taiwan, have developed a polyphony number changing method. According to...of dynamically determining a maximum polyphony number is used in an electronic device...the operation mode. Then, a maximum polyphony number is determined according to a constant...
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Polyphony St John's Smith Square, London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/20/1996; ; 687 words
; ...English pastoralism. But that crack choir Polyphony, conducted by its founder, Stephen...in concert to a shortened version of Polyphony's newly released CD (of the same name...harmonic environment of 20th-century polyphony can be pretty lush, parallel vocal lines...
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A Polyphonic Conversation with New York Polyphony
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; New York Polyphony is a group of four singers (Scott Dispensa...the members of what became New York Polyphony had met some years ago and broached...light music. As mentioned, New York Polyphony doesn't restrict itself to repertoire...
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Polyphony in Belfast
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Singers in a programme of Renaissance polyphony, which had been chosen, without a hint...when asked, and whose interest in polyphony inevitably marks them out as marginal...the modern situation, nothing beats polyphony. It was ideal fare for a city finding...
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Polyphony
Magazine article from: The American Music Teacher; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...to: American Music Teacher, Attn: Polyphony; 441 Vine St., Ste. 505, Cincinnati...or e-mail to amt@mtna.org. This Polyphony column appears in two parts. The first...questions and feedback from the April/May Polyphony column on "Art as Process." In it...
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Polyphony.(Professional Resources)
Magazine article from: American Music Teacher; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; This Polyphony column appears in two parts. The first...questions and feedback from the April/May Polyphony column on "Art as Process." In it...Life In response to the April/May 2004 Polyphony column, I received the following letter...
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polyphony
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
polyphony , music whose texture is formed by the...melodic line (e.g., plainsong ). Polyphony grew out of the practice of organum...countermelody, culminating in the great age of polyphony in the 15th and 16th cent. In the music...
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San Francisco Polyphony
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
San Francisco Polyphony. Work for orch. by Ligeti , comp. 1973–4; f.p. S. Francisco 1975 cond. Ozawa.
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Music
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...with no accompaniment or harmony. Cf. homophony , polyphony . 2. monody. — monophonic , adj. musicography...verbal accompaniment by the performer. polyphonism polyphony. polyphony, polyphonism the combination of a number of separate...
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Anonymous 4
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...group sings sacred medieval chant and polyphony, most often performing their carefully...listeners their first taste of English polyphony as performed by Anonymous 4. The recording...Such compositions dominated English polyphony during that For the Record …...
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Ludwig Senfl
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...16th-century German masters of Franco-Flemish imitative polyphony emanating from the Low Countries. Ludwig Senfl was born in...pieces for instruments. His beautifully chiseled imitative polyphony discloses the unmistakable influence of his two great predecessors...
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