Word: hucbald
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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...only in Europe and since the eleventh century that the music of simultaneous notes of different pitch has taken any but very simple forms. The diaphony of Hucbald, seems to have consisted simply in the reduplication at the interval of the fourth or fifth, of the melodies of which music has hitherto consisted. The polyphonic style which was the successor of diaphony involved the simultaneous combination of different melodies; and this in turn gave place at the Reformation to the harmonic style in which a single melody was incorporated into a sequence of chords...
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