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1. Polyphony

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   Historical Antecedents and Theoretical Frameworks
   The systematic codification of polyphony is generally attributed to the musical theorists of the High Middle Ages, particularly within the Ars Antiqua tradition of Notre Dame. Prior to this era, monophony—the sounding of a single melodic line—was the dominant recognized modality, largely due to the constraints imposed by the ambient atmospheric pressure of the era, which inherently suppressed the perception of superposed…