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It’s jazz at an early stage: this is still the era of everyone-at-once polyphony.

The children have their own afflictions, as does the husband-to-be, all shared in a polyphony of severed tongues.

He was at work on a second album of “generative polyphony” when the war came to Kyiv.

Geri Allen showed up in the 1980s with powerful grooves, exuberant melodies and astonishing polyphonies between her anchoring left hand and her wry, fluidly inventive right.

“The shock was so huge, absolutely huge,” Pichon said, recalling the thrill of singing polyphony in a stone building, rather than practicing his violin alone.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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