a style of two-part polyphonic singing; organum or a freer form resembling it
2. (in classical Greece) another word for dissonance (sense 3), Compare symphony (sense 5a)
Derived forms
diaphonic (ˌdaɪəˈfɒnɪk)
adjective
Word origin
C17: from Late Latin diaphōnia, from Greek, from diaphōnos discordant, from dia- + phōnē sound
Examples of 'diaphony' in a sentence
diaphony
He mentions organum and diaphony, and remarks that he finds the succession of fifths and fourths very tiresome.
W. S. B. Mathews A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present (1891). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)