Gymel
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Gymel
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In medieval and early Renaissance English polyphonic music, gymel is the technique of temporarily dividing up one voice part, usually an upper one, into two parts of equal range, but singing different music. Often the two voices sing a passage of intricate polyphony, beginning and finally converging on a unison, and often, but not always, the other voices drop out for a time. While the earliest use of gymel seems to have been around the mid-14th century, the earliest notated gymels survive from
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