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Thread #110424   Message #2482019
Posted By: GUEST,Smokey
01-Nov-08 - 08:16 PM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Beautiful Don, thank you. 40 part polyphony - as far as I'm aware that's as complicated as it's ever got. If the human mind could come up with that in 1570, I reckon the 'peasants' would have been able to stick three chords behind a simple ditty. To assume otherwise is plain daft.

There was actually a German bloke much later who wrote another part to it, but he was probably just showing off..