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polytonality Mus.|ˌpɒlɪtəʊˈnælɪtɪ|
[f. poly- + tonality.]
The simultaneous use of two or more keys in a musical composition.
1923[see atonal a.]. 1934S. R. Nelson All about Jazz i. 12 Polytonality, dissonance, and the more lurid forms of Expressionism are the shibboleths of Schönberg, Stravinsky, Bartók and the moderns. 1946G. Abraham in A. L. Bacharach Brit. Music iii. 61 The experiment is in polytonality—the flute plays in A, the oboe in A flat, and the viola in C. 1955L. Feather Encycl. Jazz 32 Many young jazzmen were experimenting with atonality and polytonality. 1969Daily Tel. 8 Nov. 9/3 Cold admiration seems to have been the response to his consciously manufactured rhythms, systematic polytonality and pattern building. 1977J. Crosby Company of Friends xxxiv. 220 ‘Roger found out, did he?’ asked Sascha idly, playing simultaneous D-minor and C-sharp triads. Polytonality—while naked. Very sexual.
So polyˈtonal a., containing or pertaining to polytonality; polyˈtonalist, one who writes or advocates polytonal music.
1924P. A. Scholes Crotchets 164 The device of ‘canon’ sometimes pointed to a polytonal future for music. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 68 The polytonal choral writing of Milhaud. 1938Oxf. Compan. Mus. 406/1 The polytonalists appear to claim that the value of their work lies in the significance of the horizontal lines. 1949Penguin Music Mag. July 24 The polytonal writing, in which different parts in the polyphony may have, not only their individual harmonization, but also each their own tonality, is chiefly a tentative realization of a stage that music is steadily approaching. 1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. (1958) xxiii. 332 All of the trio and octet scorings and performances partake..of the controlled but not stifling disciplines of a music which is polytonal, polyrhythmic at times, and spontaneous too. Ibid., Dave..is another polytonalist. 1976New Yorker 15 Nov. 194/2 Rich in feeling, sometimes polytonal (or, at any rate, of indefinite tonality), the piece is not without interest. |