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 Holy Father offered his praise to polyphonic music while welcoming participants at the June 18 event commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, a ...

In a music room on the slopes of Nazareth on a sweltering late-June afternoon in Galilee, the violinist Nabeel Abboud-Ashkar coaches a group of young musicians through a Dvořák piano quintet. After ...

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, ...

New York Polyphony will be performing at St Francis Episcopal Church in Stamford on Friday, Nov. 8. Founded in 2006, Polyphony is a male, a capella, classical vocal quartet focusing on music of the ...