‘Cantare alla greca con citere e violini’: Western Musical Transfers and Localisations in Early Modern Crete by Alexandros Maria Hatzikiriakos

“…The article goes on to explore the dissemination of Western secular instrumental and polyphonic practices in the main Cretan cities, taking as a case study literary sources dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries which testify to polyphonic compositions in Greek, such as madrigals and incidental music. …”
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Religious and philosophical dialogues in Dostoevsky’s novel Demons by Gaponenkov, Alexey A.

“…In this sense, the theory of M. M. Bakhtin about polyphonic dialogue in Dostoevsky’s novels does not allow to fully explain its (dialogue’s) mystical-religious content, and even more so the hidden author’s modality – Christian assessment (“pointing finger, passionately raised”). …”
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A latent rhythm complexity model for attribute-controlled drum pattern generation by Alessandro Ilic Mezza, Massimiliano Zanoni, Augusto Sarti

“…Trained on a large corpus of MIDI files of polyphonic drum recordings, the proposed method proved capable of generating coherent and realistic samples at the desired complexity value. …”
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Social system design methodology for transitioning to a new social structure – a holistic urban living lab approach to the well-being city by Atsunobu Kimura, Hisashi Haraguchi, Yutaka Yamauchi, Katsuta Matsuura

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Nicolas Bouvier. L’usage d’un monde sans histoire ? by Guillaume Bridet

“…Through three main axes, the study reveals that History, in all its dimensions, occupies a central place in this polyphonic text. Indeed, Bouvier brings depth to his narrative by evoking multiple temporalities in the course of his travels. …”
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Orient and Occident Encounters in Dimitrije Buzarovski’s Oratorio “Radomir’s Psalms” by Trena Jordanonska

“…The oratorio Radomir’s Psalms op. 47 (1999) by Dimitrije Buzarovski addresses Orthodox chant in a Western tradition, embedding Eastern modal monodic sacred and folk tradition into Western polyphonic sacred and secular tonal forms. The work is also an example of the influence of the cultural environment upon shaping of the musical ideas.…”
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Quina lenga per revitalizar l’occitan ? by Cristian Lagarda

“…The self-reflexive and polyphonic exercise highlights the issues and a certain consensus on the part of the actors.…”
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Hybride Konstruktionen als identitätsstiftende Verortung in Vladimir Vertlibs Roman «Viktor hilft» by Miša Glišič

“…The author describes polyphonic situations in the cross-cultural narrative process and indirectly pluralizes the concept of culture, advocating a transcultural understanding of modern cultures. …”
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Leadership dynamics in musical groups: Quantifying effects of musical structure on directionality of influence in concert performance videos. by Sanket Rajeev Sabharwal, Matthew Breaden, Gualtiero Volpe, Antonio Camurri, Peter E Keller

“…It was hypothesised that the directionality of influence, indexed by Granger Causality, would be greater for 'homophonic' textures with a clear distinction between melody and accompaniment parts than for 'polyphonic' textures with less distinction between melody and accompaniment. …”
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Cloud of unknowing, tower of silk : narratives of the noumenal in the harmony silk factory by Wee, Samuel Ting Han

“…Much has been made about the polyphonic narrative structure of Tash Aw’s debut novel, The Harmony Silk Factory. …”
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Poetry against violence: Sergey Zavyalov’s poems by Ičin Kornelija

“…The article discusses Sergey Zavyalov’s cycle of poems “Christmas Lent” as a polyphonic text - evidence of the besieged Leningrad in the context of philosophical reflections on whether poetry is possible after Auschwitz. …”
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Un mois sur l’autoroute Paris-Marseille, ou comment réenchanter le monde by Philippe Antoine

“…The book plays with the codes of travel literature using parody and fictionalization and is a hybrid, polyphonic, subjective, and political text. Diversifying the mediums and giving free rein to the imagination, it creates a constant dialogue between various types of statements that both contradict and complement each other.…”
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Les textes autochtones et la formation de l’ethnolinguistique nord-américaine by Chloé Laplantine

“…Ethnography becomes a collaborative and polyphonic activity, and linguistic research aims to discover the specificity of an experience as it is expressed in linguistic forms.…”
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In Pursuit of the Musical Image: Imagining the Soundscape of Wild Man by Xing Fan

“…This article offers an examination of polyphonic technique in Gao Xingjian’s Wild Man (1985). …”
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The “Authenticity” of the Reconstruction of Missing Parts? Some Reflections on a Misplaced Problem by Marina Toffetti

“…The article examines the issue and validity of the reconstruction of polyphonic music with one or more missing parts in critical editions from a philosophical, philological and practical point of view and establishes some criteria for the acceptability of the results.…”
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Le psautier des églises réformées au xvie siècle by Jean-Michel Noailly

“…The psalter was often translated and was revised several times, but without that melodies were changed. Polyphonic harmonizations were realized for the private worship. …”
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Dispositifs de catégorisation et construction du lien social : l’entrée dans une association homoparentale by Luca Greco

“…A primary issue concerning a polyphonic, categorical, and political vision of ethnographic texts is the interactional negotiation of identities between informants and fieldworkers and its contextualization in fieldwork notes and academic texts. …”
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Mass literature of the late XX - early XXI century: technology or poetics?

“…The author considers a polyphonic in the cultural situation of the present and about its place in mass literature. …”
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THE NEW NARRATIVE DISORDER – SUBJECT, TIME AND DISCOURSE CENTERED IN THE WOMEN'S NOVELS IN PORTUGAL by João Barrento

“…Taking as paradigmatic reference novels by Maria Velho da Costa, Teolinda Gersão and Maria Gabriela Llansol (besides many others, including male fiction), the paper points out the main aspects of this "new narrative disorder" on the level of polyphonic discourse, temporality and hybridization of genres.…”
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Unisono by Dorota Jarząbek-Wasyl

“…Like any large-scale undertaking of this kind, this volume also raises concerns and doubts, especially with regard to following the postulated polyphonic and refreshing approach to performance history, as well as the limitations of institutional critique, whose outlook has its "blind spot," too.…”
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