polyphonicallyadv.
/ˌpɒlɪˈfɒnᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌpɑliˈfɑnək(ə)li/, /ˌpɑləˈfɑnək(ə)li/ Music.
In a polyphonic manner.
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contrapuntally1875
polyphonically1893
1893 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 498/2 Compositions of earlier periods..are almost without exception written polyphonically.
1936 Scrutiny 5 268 The increasing tendency in Beethoven's music to think of harmony..vertically and dramatically instead of horizontally and polyphonically.
1959 Listener 8 Jan. 80/1 The polyphonically derived harmony intensifies the seventeenth-century partiality for modal variety and false relation.
2003 New Yorker 14 July 93/1 ‘Cry Me a River’ may be the most polyphonically complex teenybopper ballad in history.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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