Polytonality (also polyharmony[1]) is the musical use of more than one key simultaneously. Bitonality is the use of only two different keys at the same time. Polyvalence or polyvalency is the use of more than one harmonic function, from the same key, at the same time.[2]
Example of C- and F-sharp major chords together in Stravinsky's Petrushka (see: Petrushka chord)
Some examples of bitonality superimpose fully harmonized sections of music in different keys.
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:...
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...
each implying a polytonality (D major 7 over C major 7: CEGBDF#AC#) with the improvisation based on an alternating lydian-ish polytonality and an altered...
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...
Cliff "Brubeck's Trademark Style: Odd Time Signatures, Polyrhythms and Polytonality" PBS:Rediscovering Dave Brubeck Released 16 December 2001 Retrieved March...
only new experiment in tonality. Darius Milhaud developed the use of polytonality, that is, music where different instruments play in different keys at...
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...
are influenced by jazz and Brazilian music and make extensive use of polytonality. Milhaud is considered one of the key modernist composers. A renowned...
unconventional musical style, which includes polyrhythm, multi-octave vocals, and polytonality, has given the album a reputation as one of the most challenging recordings...
masterpiece that had created "the decade of the displaced accent and the polytonal chord". Copland adopted Stravinsky's technique of composing in small sections...
avant-garde nature of the work. Stravinsky had begun to experiment with polytonality in The Firebird and Petrushka, but for The Rite of Spring, he "pushed...
indicated at the beginning of the music, e.g., "timpani in D–A"). In polytonal music, where different parts are actually in different keys sounding together...
Neotonality New Complexity New Objectivity Noise Pandiatonicism Polyrhythms Polytonality Post-romanticism Process Quartal and quintal harmony Serialism Sound...
with Sarcasms for piano, Op. 17 (1912), which makes extensive use of polytonality. He composed his first two piano concertos around then, the latter of...
systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatory elements, and quarter tones. His...
extension out of a triadic harmonic language", an experiment with the polytonality of his teachers Persichetti and Milhaud, a musical technique which Glass...
signatures, rising and falling scales, ostinato, bitonality and occasional polytonality — set him apart from other English composers. Vaughan Williams remarked...
Just Outside of Normal (Guitar) "Extreme Sweeping: Jean Marc Belkadi's Polytonal Plectrum Pyrotechnics". Guitar Player, pp. 144–145. "Jude Gold (Credits)"...
(1955) for James Blades Fanfare for St Edmundsbury, short antiphonal and polytonal piece for three trumpets (1959) Nocturnal after John Dowland for guitar...
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