Paul Hofhaimer
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Paul Hofhaimer was an Austrian organist and composer. He was particularly gifted at improvisation, and was regarded as the finest organist of his age by many writers, including Vadian and Paracelsus;
Paul Hofhaimer on a wagon with positive organ
Polyphony
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Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice or a texture with one dominant melodic vo
Paul Hofhaimer
…Europe, usually in arrangements, attests to their popularity. The handful of pieces for organ which have survived show Hofhaimer's gift for composing polyphonic lines around a cantus firmus. His German lieder are typical of the time, and usually in bar form, with one section being polyphonic and the other being…
Polyphony in a 10th-century manuscript of Musica enchiriadis
Albanian polyphonic folk group wearing qeleshe and fustanella in Skrapar