polytonality in English

noun
1
the simultaneous use of two or more keys in a musical composition.
This study has confirmed that indeed, he did develop numerous innovative techniques before his European counterparts, including polytonality , tone-clusters, atonality and polyrhythms, and many others.

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1. Bitonality—the use of two different tonalities —is the most common type of polytonality

2. Tonality is a galaxy, Atonality is another galaxy, polytonality is the ship going from tonality to Atonality, but the one travels in the ship is tonal, the real atonal is the alien waiting for the traveler, in other words, polytonality is the way tonality becomes more and more advanced until it could eventually leave entirely all tonal traces

3. 29 Bolcom uses a lot of Latin America music materials in Recuerdos, and also applied contemporary compositional technique to this work, such as polytonality , serialism, collage, etc.

4. In Jazz music you can listen Bitonal stuff on the playing of Ornette Coleman (Double Quartet), Jazz group Bad Plus and piano player Richie Beirach.Some Allan Holdsworth ‘s songs also have some Polytonality