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- Polytonality (also polyharmony) is the musical use of more than one key simultaneously. Bitonality is the use of only two different keys at the same time...
- List of pieces using polytonality and/or bitonality. Samuel Barber Symphony No. 2 (1944)[citation needed] Béla Bartók Mikrokosmos Volume 5 number 125:...
- polyrhythmic accompaniment," the composition combined Afro-Cuban rhythm with polytonality and preceded further use of modality and avant-garde harmony in Latin...
- are influenced by jazz and Brazilian music and make extensive use of polytonality. Milhaud is considered one of the key modernist composers. A renowned...
- atonal music. He employs techniques such as polyrhythm, tone clusters, polytonality, br**** glissandi and polymodal chromaticism to create unique musical...
- only new experiment in tonality. Darius Milhaud developed the use of polytonality, that is, music where different instruments play in different keys at...
- The Petrushka chord is a recurring polytonal device used in Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka and in later music. These two major triads, C major and...
- used. An added tone such as fourth voiced below the root may suggest polytonality. The practice of adding tones may have led to superimposing chords and...
- side-stepping or side-slipping, superimposition of Coltrane changes, and polytonality. The term outside is commonly used by jazz musicians playing in a post-bop...
- Variations on "America" for organ in 1891 at age seventeen. It included a polytonal section in three simultaneous keys, though this was omitted from performances...