NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- Though they’ve made a name for themselves singing music that’s hundreds of years old, the four men of New York Polyphony are unequivocably voices of their own times, not ancient ...

In Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres (The MIT Press, 2017), Peter Pesic examines the shift in Western history from monophonic music — music with one melodic line — to polyphonic music, which ...

Very early music was written for the human voices and later including instruments performing the same line of music. The music term, polyphony, refers to two or more different melodic lines that are ...

The 17th century was the time of the highest flowering of choral musical culture in Russia and Ukraine. This century was also the richest in the variety of musical styles of liturgical music. In the ...

"Because the music's quality is very ambient and the music is kind of objective, it allows the listener to project whatever they need onto it. So, I won't say it's a blank canvas, but it does give ...

Congregation Emanu-El has announced the season launch of the upcoming Cantors' Concert Series on Saturday, December 7 at 7.30 p.m., presenting the San Francisco debut of POLYPHONY, the renowned and ...

Jul. 9—Music can move us from darkness to light. Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico is performing a suite of songs at the Cathedral of St. John on Friday, July 12. The varied program was designed to ...

The four men who make up the early music quartet called "New York Polyphony" came to Champaign's Emmanuel Memorial Episcopal Church on Tuesday evening, May 14, to give an exciting and moving concert ...

Editor’s note: To listen along as you read, click the links in the text. These pieces were performed for The Economist by the choir of Jesus College, Cambridge. IN 1605 Charles de Ligny, a Frenchman, ...