We have all heard it, yet most of us would not be able to name it. The term polyphony (from the Greek for “many sounds”) is used to describe music that employs simultaneous yet independent melodies.

The angelic choirs must sound something like this, full-throated in song: four strands of voice — soprano, alto, tenor, bass — weaving toward the same destination along different roads of melody. The ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Local talent will be honoring one of Spain’s most significant and influential composers of the modern period, Enrique Granados. Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico will ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Now in their 14th season, Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico promotes the talent of New Mexico musicians through vocal ensemble performances. They have been providing holiday ...

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 demonstrate ...

The 18-voice mixed chamber choir Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, directed by Maxine Thévenot, presents a wide-ranging program of unaccompanied choral works from the 16th century to the 21st. The ...

Two Seattle choruses, the Tudor Choir and the Esoterics, offer contrasting programs this weekend — and if you time it right, you can squeeze in both some 20th-century choral landmarks and some ...

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 ...

Three cities in the United States were blessed by the visit of one of – if not the – oldest choirs in the world: the Cappella Musicale Pontificia, known more commonly as the Sistine Chapel Choir and ...

If you are ever feeling particularly nosey and decide to go poking around the obscure recesses of your average English church ...

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, ...