Definition of Polytonality. Meaning of Polytonality. Synonyms of Polytonality

- 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:...
- chords to imply a polytonality (D major 7 over C major 7: CEGBDF#AC#) with the improvisation based on an alternating polytonality and an altered dominant...
- movement. The piece is notable for one of the earliest known uses of polytonality (though not the earliest, being predated by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's...
- polyrhythmic accompaniment," the composition combined Afro-Cuban rhythm with polytonality and preceded further use of modality and avant-garde harmony in Latin...
- each implying a polytonality (D major 7 over C major 7: CEGBDF#AC#) with the improvisation based on alternating lydian-ish polytonality and an altered...
- only new experiment in tonality. Darius Milhaud developed the use of polytonality, that is, music where different instruments play in different keys at...
- 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...
- 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...
- to a polytonality, often by beginning with a duplicated tonic chord and modulating the chords in contrary motion until the desired polytonality is reached...