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Recent Examples of polyphonic
Byrd is the word: Revel in the polyphonic glories of William Byrd, perhaps the greatest and certainly most influential of all the English Renaissance composers, in a setting that surely would have felt home to him, as a composer of sacred songs.
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Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 17 July 2025
The end result is a polyphonic spree of subcontinental flavors.
—Jordan Michelman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 July 2025
The album is almost entirely instrumental, featuring a polyphonic blend of percussion, strings, keyboards, synths, and woodwinds, with André’s flute driving the downbeat.
—Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
In turn, her fiction felt lively and polyphonic.
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
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Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 17 July 2025
The end result is a polyphonic spree of subcontinental flavors.
—Jordan Michelman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 July 2025
The album is almost entirely instrumental, featuring a polyphonic blend of percussion, strings, keyboards, synths, and woodwinds, with André’s flute driving the downbeat.
—Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
In turn, her fiction felt lively and polyphonic.
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polyphonic
Adjective
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The effect is of a double weave of associations, a harmonic convergence.—
David L. Ulin,
The Atlantic,
6 Oct. 2025
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What matters is the cumulative buzz, the sense of harmonic slippage — the graininess in what looks, on paper, like a simple major chord.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
3 Oct. 2024
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The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
1 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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The band’s subsequent project, 1966’s Days of Future Passed, was one of the first instances of a concept album — tracking 24 hours of an everyman’s life — and an early touchstone of prog rock with its lush orchestral sound.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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Lodge was a pivotal force behind the group’s groundbreaking fusion of orchestral rock and psychedelia.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The union results in a colorful, rhythmic and festive song that celebrates the spirit of Santa Marta and that city, the oldest in Colombia, on its 500th anniversary.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
10 Oct. 2025
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Daniel Jones’ success is becoming less of a novelty and more of a logical endpoint in Shane Steichen’s rhythmic system.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Witherspoon paired the pumps with a tonal outfit, layering a structured burgundy jacket over matching trousers and a simple top — keeping the same color palette from her weekend look.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
13 Oct. 2025
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The tonal grace of Lalah Hathaway.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Hudson buttressed Al Kooper’s original organ part into a chordal fortress, part of an incendiary performance that surges to peak after peak.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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The Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi set Psalm 112 in Hebrew, in mainly chordal antiphony.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas News,
2 Mar. 2020
Adjective
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Bach was lively, supple, and, especially in the Larghetto, generous in its songful musicality.—
Jeremy Eichler,
BostonGlobe.com,
23 Sep. 2022
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In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen.—
Seth Colter Walls,
New York Times,
26 Aug. 2022
Adjective
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But for many of Swift’s fans, ponying up must feel simultaneously pleasurable and obligatory—just like paying to attend Life of a Showgirl movie screenings that mostly consisted of lyric videos.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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The 89-minute big-screen event was a mix of music videos, behind-the-scenes footage and a series of lyric videos for tracks on her new album.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Polyphonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyphonic. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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