polyphonyn.

Brit.

/pəˈlɪfəni/,

/pəˈlɪfn̩i/,

/pɒˈlɪfəni/,

/pɒˈlɪfn̩i/, U.S.

/pəˈlɪfəni/

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Partly formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Greek πολυϕωνία ; poly- comb. form, -phony comb. form.

Etymology: Originally < Hellenistic Greek πολυϕωνία variety of tones (e.g. of birds and musical instruments) or of speech < ancient Greek πολύϕωνος (see polyphonous adj.) + -ία -y suffix³; compare -phony comb. form. In later use < poly- comb. form + -phony comb. form. Compare post-classical Latin polyphonia (14th cent. in an isolated attestation, in musical sense).

a. Music. Harmony; esp. the simultaneous and harmonious combination of a number of individual melodic lines; the style of composition in which melodic lines are combined in this way; polyphonic composition, counterpoint. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > counterpoint

counterpoint1597

contrapunct1694

polyphony1790

polyphonism1864

triple counterpoint1869

polyphone1875

1790 R. Robinson Hist. Baptism xxxix. 567 The Calvinists confined themselves to plain metrical psalmody... Had the monks made their houses schools of literature, arts and sciences..probably the churches would have preserved the primitive polyphony.

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Polyphonist..a master of the art of polyphony; a contrapuntist.

1898 Dict. National Biogr. LIV. 232/2 The tendency to a harmonized melody, to homophony rather than polyphony.

1931 C. Engel Discords Mingled 147 Jazz is rag-time, plus ‘blues’, plus orchestral polyphony; it is the combination, in the popular music current, of melody, rhythm, harmony, and counterpoint.

1965 New Statesman 10 Dec. 939/1 A polyphony of death, art and ‘incorporeal love’ was perhaps the most exalted solution for a girl who would have disliked fulfilment.

1992 London Rev. Bks. 26 Mar. 6/3 The concert hall was no place to nurture the subtleties of polyphony, either acoustically or ideologically.

b. The facility on a synthesizer, mobile phone, etc., to produce more than one note simultaneously.

ΚΠ

1985 Korg Poly 800 & DW-6000 Demo Rev. in net.music.synth (Usenet newsgroup) 11 Apr. The DW-6000 is polyphonic. It has 6 voices, with two oscillators per voice. These can be played in 3 modes. The first is full,overlapping polyphony.

1986 Electronic Musician Aug. 11/1 The polyphony of the CZ instruments is a software function.

1996 C. Jenkins in P. Trynka Rock Hardware 58/2 The Prophet 5's polyphony, programmability, lush cross-modulated sounds and powerful unison-key mode made it an instant success.

2005 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 11 Mar. (Computimes section) 14 Colour and polyphony will enhance the mobile phone's personality and drive revenues.

a. Multiplicity of sounds or voices; (also) mimicry, ventriloquism (cf. polyphonism n. 1, polyphonist n. 1). Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [noun] > multiplication of sound

polyphonism1713

polyphony1828

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Polyphonism, Polyphony, multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an echo.

1836 Times 2 Mar. 4/1 Mr. Love..will introduce the whole of his extraordinary imitations and illusions in polyphony.

1858 Househ. Words 19 June 10/1 This was the startling performance of three persons, a species of ventriloquism or polyphony.

1937 Times 30 Dec. 11/7 The Federal Court..may discover the relations which will harmonize the polyphony of the Constitution.

1979 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 23 200 Baxtin..does not address himself to the narrator's own polyphony of voices.

2000 Contemp. Sociol. 29 366/1 Where the nuclear family is presumed to speak with one voice,..the unclear family has a polyphony of voices.

b. Literary Criticism. A multiplicity of independent and often antithetic narrative voices, none of which is given predominance; the use of this narrative technique.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narration or story-telling > specific method of

framing1909

interior monologue1922

skaz1926

thought-stream1926

stream of consciousness1939

polyphony1954

dialogism1957

1954 W. Lednicki Russia, Poland, & West iii. i. 134 Dostoevsky's admirable ability to create various independent characters..produces the impression of a polyphony, in which every voice has its intrinsic value, one would say even—an uncontrolled power.

1977 New Literary Hist. 9 124 The polyphony of equally valid philosophical positions and value judgements, interpretations, or visions of the narrated events provides a pluralistic view of the world.

2002 Wasafiri Spring 62/2 The hybridity of an Indian writer may not only be found in the outrageous polyphony of a Rushdie.

3. Phonetics. The symbolization of different vocal sounds by the same letter or character; the quality or condition of being polyphonic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun] > phonetic transcription > relation of sound and symbol

polyphony1863

phonics1901

society > communication > writing > system of writing > [noun] > symbolic writing > polyphonic

polyphony1863

1863 E. Hincks in Atlantis 4 57 (title) On the polyphony of the Assyrio-Babylonian cuneiform writing.

1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 583 The difficulty of reading which this polyphony involved.

1934 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 54 79 This fact promises to throw light upon some of the puzzling problems presented by the polyphony of the Sumerian syllabary.

1952 I. J. Gelb Stud. Writing iv. 251 Polophony [sic], a characteristic of a single written sign expressing more than one sound in the language.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	polyphony
释义	polyphonyn. Brit. /pəˈlɪfəni/, /pəˈlɪfn̩i/, /pɒˈlɪfəni/, /pɒˈlɪfn̩i/, U.S. /pəˈlɪfəni/ Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Partly formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Greek πολυϕωνία ; poly- comb. form, -phony comb. form. Etymology: Originally < Hellenistic Greek πολυϕωνία variety of tones (e.g. of birds and musical instruments) or of speech < ancient Greek πολύϕωνος (see polyphonous adj.) + -ία -y suffix³; compare -phony comb. form. In later use < poly- comb. form + -phony comb. form. Compare post-classical Latin polyphonia (14th cent. in an isolated attestation, in musical sense). 1. a. Music. Harmony; esp. the simultaneous and harmonious combination of a number of individual melodic lines; the style of composition in which melodic lines are combined in this way; polyphonic composition, counterpoint. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > counterpoint counterpoint1597 contrapunct1694 polyphony1790 polyphonism1864 triple counterpoint1869 polyphone1875 1790 R. Robinson Hist. Baptism xxxix. 567 The Calvinists confined themselves to plain metrical psalmody... Had the monks made their houses schools of literature, arts and sciences..probably the churches would have preserved the primitive polyphony. 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Polyphonist..a master of the art of polyphony; a contrapuntist. 1898 Dict. National Biogr. LIV. 232/2 The tendency to a harmonized melody, to homophony rather than polyphony. 1931 C. Engel Discords Mingled 147 Jazz is rag-time, plus ‘blues’, plus orchestral polyphony; it is the combination, in the popular music current, of melody, rhythm, harmony, and counterpoint. 1965 New Statesman 10 Dec. 939/1 A polyphony of death, art and ‘incorporeal love’ was perhaps the most exalted solution for a girl who would have disliked fulfilment. 1992 London Rev. Bks. 26 Mar. 6/3 The concert hall was no place to nurture the subtleties of polyphony, either acoustically or ideologically. b. The facility on a synthesizer, mobile phone, etc., to produce more than one note simultaneously. ΚΠ 1985 Korg Poly 800 & DW-6000 Demo Rev. in net.music.synth (Usenet newsgroup) 11 Apr. The DW-6000 is polyphonic. It has 6 voices, with two oscillators per voice. These can be played in 3 modes. The first is full,overlapping polyphony. 1986 Electronic Musician Aug. 11/1 The polyphony of the CZ instruments is a software function. 1996 C. Jenkins in P. Trynka Rock Hardware 58/2 The Prophet 5's polyphony, programmability, lush cross-modulated sounds and powerful unison-key mode made it an instant success. 2005 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 11 Mar. (Computimes section) 14 Colour and polyphony will enhance the mobile phone's personality and drive revenues. 2. a. Multiplicity of sounds or voices; (also) mimicry, ventriloquism (cf. polyphonism n. 1, polyphonist n. 1). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [noun] > multiplication of sound polyphonism1713 polyphony1828 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Polyphonism, Polyphony, multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an echo. 1836 Times 2 Mar. 4/1 Mr. Love..will introduce the whole of his extraordinary imitations and illusions in polyphony. 1858 Househ. Words 19 June 10/1 This was the startling performance of three persons, a species of ventriloquism or polyphony. 1937 Times 30 Dec. 11/7 The Federal Court..may discover the relations which will harmonize the polyphony of the Constitution. 1979 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 23 200 Baxtin..does not address himself to the narrator's own polyphony of voices. 2000 Contemp. Sociol. 29 366/1 Where the nuclear family is presumed to speak with one voice,..the unclear family has a polyphony of voices. b. Literary Criticism. A multiplicity of independent and often antithetic narrative voices, none of which is given predominance; the use of this narrative technique. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narration or story-telling > specific method of framing1909 interior monologue1922 skaz1926 thought-stream1926 stream of consciousness1939 polyphony1954 dialogism1957 1954 W. Lednicki Russia, Poland, & West iii. i. 134 Dostoevsky's admirable ability to create various independent characters..produces the impression of a polyphony, in which every voice has its intrinsic value, one would say even—an uncontrolled power. 1977 New Literary Hist. 9 124 The polyphony of equally valid philosophical positions and value judgements, interpretations, or visions of the narrated events provides a pluralistic view of the world. 2002 Wasafiri Spring 62/2 The hybridity of an Indian writer may not only be found in the outrageous polyphony of a Rushdie. 3. Phonetics. The symbolization of different vocal sounds by the same letter or character; the quality or condition of being polyphonic. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun] > phonetic transcription > relation of sound and symbol polyphony1863 phonics1901 society > communication > writing > system of writing > [noun] > symbolic writing > polyphonic polyphony1863 1863 E. Hincks in Atlantis 4 57 (title) On the polyphony of the Assyrio-Babylonian cuneiform writing. 1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 583 The difficulty of reading which this polyphony involved. 1934 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 54 79 This fact promises to throw light upon some of the puzzling problems presented by the polyphony of the Sumerian syllabary. 1952 I. J. Gelb Stud. Writing iv. 251 Polophony [sic], a characteristic of a single written sign expressing more than one sound in the language. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1790
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