polyphonal, a. Mus.
(pɒˈlɪfənəl)
[f. as polyphone + -al, after antiphonal a. and n.]
= polyphonic a. 1. Hence poˈlyphonally adv.
| 1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) i. 8 The ultra⁓modern polyphonal and dissonantal school of today. Ibid. iii. 68 A woman's chorus..that sings, part antiphonally, part polyphonally, in undulating lines of chain-fourths. |