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polymodal, a.|pɒlɪˈməʊdəl|
[f. poly- + mode n. + -al1.]
1. Mus. Of, pertaining to, or designating music using two or more modes.
1929W. W. Cobbett Cycl. Survey Chamber Music I. 44/1 Since we are polymodal as well as polytonal, each of these combinations may take the following four different forms according as one or the other triad is major or minor. 1938Scrutiny VII. 174 It becomes quite obvious that his [sc. Roussel's] polymodal melodic thinking must condition his scheme of harmony. 1957W. Mellers Romanticism & 20th Cent. ii. v. 157 Roussel in his later work has more self-consciously to recover a tradition: which may explain the more strenuous quality of his (often polymodal) melodic power.
2. = multimodal a. a.
1934Jrnl. Sedimentary Petrol. IV. 73/1 Curve C represents a glacial till, in which more than one mode occurs, and is an example of a polymodal frequency curve. 1975Nature 28 Aug. 723/1 In general it seems that cells of different sizes, whether they follow a normal or a polymodal distribution, are randomly distributed throughout the tissue.
Hence polymoˈdality = multimodality; polyˈmodally adv.
1929W. W. Cobbett Cycl. Survey Chamber Music I. 38/2 It is at this point that polymodality commences to impinge upon polytonality. Ibid. 45/2 A total of five major and five minor keys, representing polymodally six tonalities. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 289 The slow destruction of the key system that we find in Milhaud's polytonality or Vaughan Williams' polymodality. 1952R. Stevenson Music in Mexico i. 7 For those whose ears have become conditioned by long familiarity with the European diatonic system, the ‘polymodality’ of indigenous music inevitably sounds as if it were ‘polytonality’. 1962Lancet 26 May 1092/2 Hoobler's remarks, together with the recent discussions about polymodality in frequency distributions of blood-pressure, prompted me to examine some experimental data on ‘pressor responses’. 1975Nature 28 Aug. 724/1 Techniques based on sorting cells after digestion of the tissue would certainly reveal polymodality. |