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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. Polyvalence or polyvalency is the use of more than one harmonic function, from the same key, at the same time.

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related to Sources · 170
Polytonality → Alfred, Allan, America's Musical Life, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, Anon, Anthropology, Arnold, Babbitt, Babiracki, Baker, Bartók, Basil Blackwell, Benjamin Britten Expression, Benjamin Britten His Life, Berkeley, Bitonality, Bohlman, Bohn, Boydell Press
related to Polyscalarity · 13
Polytonality → However, In, Moreover, Petrouchka's, Polyscalarity, Specifically, Stravinsky's, This, Though Tymoczko, Toorn, Toorn's, Tymoczko, Van
related to In traditional music · 12
Polytonality → As, Gond, India, Jaunsari, Kerala, Kuravan, Lithuanian, Munda, Santal, This, Tribes, Uttar Pradesh
related to Challenges · 10
Polytonality → Allen Forte, Babbitt, Benjamin Boretz, Dmitri Tymoczko, Furthermore, Milton Babbitt, Other, Paul Hindemith, Some, Tymoczko
related to In classical music · 9
Polytonality → Bach, Bach's Clavier-Übung III, Battalia, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's, Here, In, It, Scholes, There
related to Octatonicism · 6
Polytonality → For, Petrushka, Pieter, Some, Stravinsky's, Toorn
related to Polytonality and polychords · 5
Polytonality → For, The, The Petrushka, This, Thus
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