polyphony

music with multiple, independent melody lines performed simultaneously
Intangible music_genre Q179465
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polyphony

Summary

polyphony is a music genre[1]. polyphony draws 2,239 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #325 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • polyphony's instance of is recorded as music genre[3].
  • polyphony's instance of is recorded as texture[4].
  • polyphony's instance of is recorded as musical form[5].
  • polyphony's instance of is recorded as singing style[6].
  • polyphony is a type of vocal music[7].
  • polyphony is a type of singing[8].
  • polyphony's Commons category is recorded as Polyphony[9].
  • polyphony is the opposite of homophony[10].
  • polyphony's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Polyphonic form[11].
  • polyphony's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Polyphonic singing[12].
  • polyphony's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[13].
  • polyphony's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • polyphony's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • polyphony's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16].
  • polyphony's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[17].
  • polyphony's P14541 is recorded as 1OZ3aB[18].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include music genre[3], texture[4], musical form[5], and singing style[6]. Recorded subclass of include vocal music[7] and singing[8]. polyphony is the opposite of homophony[10].

Why It Matters

polyphony draws 2,239 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #325 of 1,946).[2] polyphony has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] polyphony is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · Putnik · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'be', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', '
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → polifonija
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P7666]]: polifonija"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1OZ3aB
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0264101-polyfonie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0264101-polyfonie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 10198, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  5. 22w ago · ~2026-19819-99 · 2026-05-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 3154742
    Instance of → music genre, texture, musical form +1
    Local thumb → —
    Instance of → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1368]]: 000370259"
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