bitonality

10 letters in word "bitonality": A B I I L N O T T Y.

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• Definitions:
• the use of two tonalities (or keys) at the same time. This does not imply, for instance, sudden or rapid modulation from one key to another but ...
• The simultaneous juxtaposition of two keys (eg, C Major and F minor). Some 20th century composers who utilized bitonality as a common device were Charles Ives and Darius Milhaud.
• The occurrence of two different tonalities at the same time.
• The sounding-together of two keys at once - either as chords, or as melody lines. Probably the most famous example in the whole history of music is this bit of the Rite of Spring, by Stravinsky. It's a ballet about pagan fertility rites, and this is the opening of the 2nd section. ...
• The musical use of more than one key simultaneously is polytonality. Bitonality is the use of only two different keys at the same time.

• bitonalities ←
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• bitonality
• → bitos
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• → bitsier