Kaii Lee had combined several piano/keyboard method books and her life long music learning books to create this sequential music theory study for this website. This page will cover the Polyphonic Style of music compositions. There are other composition styles as well, such as, Homophonic and Monophonic. By clicking on the other colored links at the bottom of this page, the other music theory topics can be found easily.

Polyphony means multiple melodic lines coexisted with each other that are all moving independently. Therefore, the various moving parts are different in the notes and the rhythms. Polyphony Style of music was the main style in music from the late Middle Ages to the Baroque era in the Western Classical Music tradition.

Johann Sebastien Bach wrote many of the most complex polyphony in his fugues. His very last completed work called "The Art of Fugue" was maybe the best example of this type of music composition. The four independent parts enter the music strategically and harmoniously.

Johann Sebastien Bach's Final work: The Art of Fugue

As in all fugues, this one starts with the first melody by itself (a monophonic texture), followed by the counter melody. Each "voice" starts separately and completely, until all the parts are together in measure 7.

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