Most compositions had been almost unison in koto ensemble, then he started polyphonic composition.

The polyphonic composition was constantly developing up until the seventeenth century when opera began to dominate the musical world of the church.

Many polyphonic compositions are not yet published; they originate from various cathedrals along the Way and indicate a further research source.

Likewise We know that simpler but genuinely artistic polyphonic compositions are often sung even in smaller churches.

In addition to the Gregorian Chant music for these, polyphonic compositions exist, some quite elaborate.

These Italian madrigals are polyphonic compositions for five voices in a contemporary late Renaissance style.

With its huge polychoral forces, climaxing on sixty fully independent parts, it is the largest known polyphonic composition from the entire era.

In the context of polyphonic composition the term voice may be used instead of part to denote a single melodic line or textural layer.

In music, a cantus firmus ("fixed song") is a pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition.

The earliest polyphonic compositions almost always involved a cantus firmus, typically a Gregorian chant, although the term itself was not used until the 14th century.

In the PostCommunion he uses - probably for the first time on the continent - the name and technique of faux-bourdon in a polyphonic composition.

Diletskii's Grammatika is a treatise on composition, the first of its kind, which targeted Western-style polyphonic compositions.

The manuscript contains 45 monophonic pieces (20 sequences, 5 conductus, 10 Benedicamus tropes) and 141 polyphonic compositions.

Judd also wrote of "chant-based tonality" , meaning "tonal" polyphonic compositions based on plainchant.

Most of them-following the earlier practise of the continental synagogues during the modern period (see Choir) - have attempted more or less elaborately polyphonic compositions.

To be chosen was Italo Selvelli's polyphonic composition, since then known as the "Resadiye March".

Parts of several polyphonic compositions attributed to Willelmus de Winchecumbe are included in the Worcester Fragments.

One motet in the Codex was copied from a polyphonic composition by Willelmus de Winchecumbe (fl.

Swindale, Owen, Polyphonic Composition, Oxford University Press, 1962.

They are then carried into the air by the helicopters, from where they play a synchronized, polyphonic composition while reacting to the sounds of the rotor blades.

The closing "Agnus Dei", with 60 voices in five groups of 12, has more independent parts than any other polyphonic composition of the Renaissance.

Pedal points are also used in other polyphonic compositions to strengthen a final cadence, signal important structural points in the composition, and for their dramatic effect.

Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-85) took polyphonic composition to new heights with works like his 'Spem in alium', a motet for forty independent voices.

In European classical music, imitative writing was featured heavily in the highly polyphonic compositions of the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

Enrichment activities may include employing more sophisticated aspects of polyphonic composition, and of the program, such as experimenting with inversions, retrograde, and other fugal techniques.