polygraph
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pol·y·graph
/ ˈpäliˌgraf/
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n.
a machine designed to detect and record changes in physiological characteristics, such as a person's pulse and breathing rates, used esp. as a lie detector.
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a lie-detector test carried out with a machine of this type.
DERIVATIVES:
pol·y·graph·ic
/ ˌpäliˈgrafik/ adj.
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Classical: The first genius of the keyboard Davitt Moroney has just recorded the complete keyboard works of William Byrd. Will one of our greatest composers now receive the attention he deserves?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; That William Byrd (c1540-1623) remains...the three or four greatest composers this country has ever produced...ambition to record a complete Byrd edition, and the first...release his first shot at Byrd; his determination to tackle...
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William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.(Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...The life and works of English composer William Byrd (1540-1623) have received steady...theory. Even across the centuries, Byrd's remains one of the most powerfully...Renaissance gave way to the Baroque, Byrd scholarship has generally displayed...
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William Byrd.
Magazine article from: Notes; 6/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Voice & Viols. The Collected Works of William Byrd, vol. 15 [London: Stainer & Bell...reasonable skill in performing early music. William Byrd was a prolific composer, writing in virtually every genre known in his...
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William Byrd.(William Byrd: Psalmes, Sonets, and Songs)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...publication of music by William Byrd (ca. 1540...edition of the composer's Keyboard...dedicated to the composer, William Byrd...Fellowes, Byrd's indefatigable...claimed that Byrd was the founder...statement ("William Byrd and the...
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William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...one aspect only of the composer's life and work, his...represent the apogee of Byrd's art, and should...my curiosity. Why did Byrd use a mere three-fold...at the achievement of William Byrd: surely to be regarded...England's greatest composers at any stage of her history...
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Aspects of William Byrd's musical recusancy
Magazine article from: Musical Times; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...is whether, and if so how, Byrd was able to forge a language...evaluate the extent to which Byrd was influenced by other composers, and ascertain how individual...will examine various aspects of Byrd's musical style in some motets...
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William Byrd, a guide to research, 2d ed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2007; 470 words
; 0415943019 William Byrd, a guide to research, 2d ed. Turbet...previously published guide to research on composer William Byrd contains writings published from 1987...checklist of monographs and articles about Byrd in chronological order from 1826...
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William Byrd.(Video Recording Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; William Byrd. Playing Elizabeth's Tune: The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd. Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips...program is a fine documentary about the composer and the political tightrope he walked...
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WILLIAM BYRD: CLARIFICA ME
Magazine article from: The American Organist; 9/1/2008; ; 583 words
; WILLIAM BYRD: CLARIFICA ME. Lon Berben, organist...keyboard music by one of the greatest composers of Elizabethan England, William Byrd. Berben provides an excellent essay on the life and work of Byrd, recounting many of the successes...
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William Byrd and His Contemporaries: Essays and a Monograph.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Brett's discussions of Byrd's Gradualia, on the...relevant volumes of The Byrd Edition, or have had...outdated Collected Works of William Byrd, rather than the new...styles, and English composers' responses to them...Gradualia, sorting out the composer's notoriously complicated...
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William Byrd
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
William Byrd The English composer William Byrd (ca. 1543-1623) was one of the greatest polyphonists of...keyboard music, stage songs, and instrumental fantasias. William Byrd was born in Lincolnshire, probably in 1543. Nothing is...
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Byrd, William
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Byrd, William (1543–1623). Composer especially of liturgical music, who remained a Roman Catholic although writing often for the Church of England.
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Byrd, William (1540–1623)
Book article from: The Renaissance
Byrd, William (1540 – 1623) Prolific English composer whose works are believed...flourishing. Talented composers from all over the...Chapel Royal, and Byrd contributed his own...and remained as a composer and organist. Byrd...
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Byrd, Donald 1949—
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...artists, including composer Peter Sellars and playwright...was near his home, Byrd decided to attend...return from Europe, Byrd decided to leave Yale...of the first friends Byrd made at Tufts was actor William Hurt. By this time...
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...The English composer Ralph Vaughan...the music of William Byrd and Henry Purcell, English composers of the 16th...of the early composers became important...can follow the composer's steady development...role in Vaughan William's output...
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