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polyphonist|ˈpɒlɪfəʊnɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
1. One who produces a variety of vocal sounds; a ventriloquist. rare.
1829W. E. Love in Dict. Nat. Biog. XXXIV. 161 The Peregrinations of a Polyphonist. 1846Worcester, Polyphonist, one producing many sounds. Black.
2. Mus. One versed in polyphony; a polyphonic composer or theorist; a contrapuntist.
1864Webster, Polyphonist{ddd}a master of the art of polyphony; a contrapuntist. 1944Scrutiny XII. 205 They [sc. Gesualdo's phrases] are related not so much to the great polyphonists as to the new technique of Monteverdi. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) VI. 863/2 His [sc. Tallis's] music..has that expressive power characteristic of the later English polyphonists in its feeling for tonality and harmonic progression. 1968New Oxf. Hist. Mus. IV. vii. 375 The Spanish polyphonists of this century [sc. the 16th] express a religious devotion and mystic fervour parallel to that of the painters and religious poets and prose-writers of the same epoch. |