polyphonic music

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   music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments

   Synonymspolyphonyconcerted music

   Antonymsmonophonic music

   Broadermusic

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Questions about polyphonic music

What does polyphonic music mean?

polyphonic music means "music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments".

What is another word for polyphonic music?

Close synonyms include polyphony, concerted music. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of polyphonic music?

The recorded antonyms are monophonic music.

Is polyphonic music a common word?

polyphonic music is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.