English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From poly- + -phony.
Pronunciation[edit]
polyphony (countable and uncountable, plural polyphonies)
- (music) Musical texture consisting of several independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).
- The quality of a text of being capable of being read in more than one way.
- the polyphony of a biblical passage
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Translations[edit]
musical texture consisting of several independent melodic voices
- Albanian: gjâmë f, gjëmë (sq) f, vajtim (sq) f, pleqërishte (sq) f, lashtërishtë f
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: поліфані́я f (polifaníja), шматгало́ссе n (šmathalóssje), мнагагало́ссе n (mnahahalóssje)
- Bulgarian: полифо́ния f (polifónija), многогла́сие n (mnogoglásie)
- Catalan: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 複音音樂, 复音音乐 (fùyīnyīnyuè), 複調音樂, 复调音乐 (fùdiàoyīnyuè)
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: polyfonie (nl) f
- Finnish: moniäänisyys, polyfonia (fi)
- French: polyphonie (fr) f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Mehrstimmigkeit f
- Greek: πολυφωνία (el) f (polyfonía)
- Icelandic: fjölröddun f, pólýfónía f
- Italian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: polifonia (pl) f
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- Romanian: polifonie (ro) f
- Russian: полифони́я (ru) f (polifoníja), многоголо́сие (ru) n (mnogogolósije)
- Slovene: polifonija f
- Spanish: polifonía f
- Swedish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: поліфоні́я (uk) f (polifoníja), багатоголо́сся (uk) n (bahatoholóssja)
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