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	Polytonality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Examples of this rather more dissonant kind of bitonality can be found in the work of Charles Ives, whose use of the technique in later additions (1909-1910) to his Variations on "America" (1891) is one of the first in classical music.
		Bitonality was used quite often by members of the French group, Les Six, and especially by Darius Milhaud, who perhaps used it more than any other composer.
		Although the word bitonality is most often used when talking about relatively modern classical music (written in the last one hundred years or so), it is quite a common technique in folk music, especially in eastern Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bitonality (472 words)

	Bitonality
		Bitonality is the use in music of two different keys at the same time.
		Examples of this rather more dissonant kind of bitonality can be found in the work of Charles Ives, whose use of the technique in his Variations on "America" (1891) is one of the first in classical music.
		Bitonality was used quite often by members of the French group, Les Six, and expecially by Darius Milhaud, who perhaps used it more than any other composer.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bi/Bitonality.html (224 words)

	POLYTONALITY FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Examples of this rather more dissonant kind of bitonality can be found in the work of Charles_Ives, whose use of the technique in later additions (1909-1910) to his ''Variations on "America"'' (1891) is one of the first in classical_music.
		Bitonality was used quite often by members of the French group, Les_Six, and especially by Darius_Milhaud, who perhaps used it more than any other composer.
		Although the word bitonality is most often used when talking about relatively modern classical_music (written in the last one hundred years or so), it is quite a common technique in folk_music, especially in eastern Europe.
	www.whereintheworldisbush.com /Polytonality (420 words)

	Read about Polytonality at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Polytonality and learn about Polytonality here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Examples of this rather more dissonant kind of bitonality can be found in the work of Charles Ives, whose use of the technique in later additions (1909-1910) to his Variations on "America" (1891) is one of the first in
		Bitonality was used quite often by members of the French group,
		Many composers today who are interested in using tonality are also interested in bitonality, such as Philip Glass in his Symphony No. 2.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Bitonality (401 words)

	Tom Gullion - Jazz Saxophonist - Bitonal Concepts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Though the definitions haven't seemed to finalize yet, bitonality is basically music characterized by the mutual coexistence of two tonal centers.
		In bitonal music, an improvising musician may play from the C or Ab major scales, or as we'll see later, a combination of the two.
		One of my "pet" bitonal concepts that has proved useful in all kinds of music has been the relation between chords stacked at the interval of a major third.
	www.tingjing.com /tg/articles/bitonal.html (778 words)

	Bimodalism -- A New School of Harmony in Music \| Enrique Ubieta
		But symmetrical paratonalism should not be judged as a procedure of bitonality, when this sort of twin paratonalism works within a homophonic texture of bimodal harmony, without any adherence to extratonal elements that may attenuate or nullify its pure effect, such as may sometimes occur in bitonality.
		Bitonality (or polytonality) is a contrapuntal style of writing music, where each of two or more diatonic melodies is written in a different tonality, so that all may sound simultaneously.
		Indeed, when bitonality does superimpose major and minor tonalities, it always does so by superimposing remote tonalities of different roots (such as C and Ebm), whose tonal disparity in the scalar degrees may produce the most contrasting display of aural plans, which is the primary objective of bitonality.
	www.ubieta.com /bimodalism/BimodalHarmony.htm (4767 words)

	Read about Polytonality at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Polytonality and learn about Polytonality here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Examples of this rather more dissonant kind of bitonality can be found in the work of
		Charles Ives, whose use of the technique in later additions (1909-1910) to his Variations on "America" (1891) is one of the first in
		Bitonality was used quite often by members of the
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Polytonality (373 words)

	Stravinsky
		Seeking explanatory models beyond the merely descriptive, musicologists have dismissed the concept of bitonality as a description of Stravinsky’s harmonic language as at best an early attempt to understand musical language departing from traditional diatonic forms and surfaces, at worst a misleading dead-end.
		The particular aural quality of keeping those divisions distinct, articulating major, minor, major seventh and “dominant seventh” or jazz seventh chords (major chords with an added seventh without dominant function) and not blending the scale into an octatonic unity within instruments is what gives his scores their unique harmonic flavor.
		This view of bitonality as a recurring feature of the instrumental and registral articulation of his harmonic palette supports the view of Stravinsky as precursor to postmodern musical language, which combines radically divergent musical sources and styles without regard to a singular narrative of musical history or as justification or context.
	www.chuckholton.com /stravinskys-bitonality.htm (1116 words)

	JAM: December/January 2001 Issue: Views & Reviews
		The units on bitonals are particularly interesting for advanced players.
		Bitonality is the use of two or more tonal groups to achieve harmonic or melodic color.
		I believe this is a pianistic approach to the guitar which opens up enormous possibilities on the fretboard.
	www.jazzkc.org /issues/2000-12/views.html (443 words)

	Polytonality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bitonality es el uso de solamente dos diversas llaves en el mismo tiempo.
		Bitonality fue utilizado absolutamente a menudo por los miembros del grupo francés, Les seises, y especialmente por Darius Milhaud, que quizás lo utilizó más que cualquier otro compositor.
		Aunque el bitonality de la palabra se utiliza lo más a menudo posible al hablar de la música clásica relativamente moderna (escrita en los cientos años pasados o tan), él es absolutamente una técnica común en música tradicional, especialmente en Europa Oriental.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/po/Polytonality.htm (413 words)

	NewMusicbox
		Copland begins the piece in a kind of bitonality with the right hand playing chords based on the blues tones—in the key of E-flat—of the left hand's simple progression in C. As the upper line gradually descends, the bitonality almost disappears.
		Blues #2 (1934) again uses the right hand in high harmonies to imply another bitonality, but here the sound is more pointed, juxtaposed with a flowing melody.
		His harmonic sense is innovative in its use of chromatic root progressions and the delicate handling of inner voices, layered in with bitonality, altered chords, unusual progressions and chord voicings, unresolved dissonances, and a whole host of other things.
	www.newmusicbox.org /printerfriendly.nmbx?id=2259 (1280 words)

	CD Spotlight. Holstian time-warp - Martinu from the quartet bearing his name, by Roderic Dunnett. '... played with ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Martinu makes use of this vein of music in his operas, and here it is used to especially striking and compact effect.
		Janácek comes often to mind, too, in the darker Fifth Quartet, whose drama (there may be personal allusions regarding its dedicatee -- one of Martinu's girl pupils, Vitezslava Kapralova) is established early on in numerous sudden surges in the middle strings.
		The chordal bitonality is constantly there -- one thinks of Bartók and Mikrokosmos -- and the dramatic interest (something Martinu is actually strong on) is maintained.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2003/03/martinu2.htm (233 words)

	Cognitive Daily » Why we can’t all be divas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The fact that nonmusicians can’t detect bitonality is the surprising result of a simple little study by Rita Wolpert of Caldwell College ("Attention to Key in a Nondirected Music Listening Task: Musicians versus Nonmusicians," Music Perception, 2000).
		Then she used a digital multi-effect processor to create two bitonal versions of the accompaniment: one a full musical step higher (G when the singer was in F), and the other a step lower (E-flat).
		While 42 percent of the nonmusicians did mention the key as potentially a problem, the remainder didn’t mention it at all, and none of the nonmusicians indicated that the bitonal arrangements were at all unpleasant.
	cognitivedaily.com /?p=37 (1442 words)

	Igor Stravinsky Russian conductor bitonality Jean Cocteau Cubist minimalist Terry Riley Anton Bruckner Wedding ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		During his stay in the city, he composed three major works for the Ballets Russes—L'oiseau de feu, Petrushka (1911), and Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) (1913).
		The ballets trace his stylistic development: from the L'oiseau de feu, whose style draws largely on Rimsky-Korsakov, to Petrushka's emphasis on bitonality, and finally to the savage polyphonic dissonance of Le sacre du printemps.
		As he himself said, with these premieres his intention was "send them all to hell".
	en.powerwissen.com /LacrJwFo8plidGJ2fegsuw==_Igor_Stravinsky.html (3510 words)

	Ak This Month, Reporting all that IS, in interior Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bitonality (the use of two keys at once) is an example of undermining tonal harmony with the use of different signatures.
		He loved being involved with ballet and was the popular subject of countless newspapers, magazines, and TV documentaries.
		His music is even featured in a Hollywood movie, Walt Disney’s “Fantasia.” The Ballets Russes was an ideal outlet for his creative energies, fusing Russian folk and popular tunes and cracklingly bitonal harmonies into an interesting new modern sound.
	www.alaskathismonth.com /index91.html (868 words)

	Bernstein's Studio - Young People's Concerts - What is Impressionism?
		It's a big word, but it's very easy to understand; it just means two different harmonies at the same time, that is, music written in two different keys as once.
		It is also one of the great show-pieces for an orchestra; the way Ravel writes for orchestra is so brilliant, and famous all by itself, just as orchestration, never minding the music.
		But you'll also hear in it most of the things we found in Debussy's music: whole-tone scales and old Greek modes (which is natural in an old Greek ballet) and bitonality, and blurry chords and all the rest of the things you've learned today.
	www.leonardbernstein.com /dev/studio/element2.asp?id=389 (2792 words)

	What to listen for in Albert Roussel's Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Within a tonal framework, he freely inserted chromatic inflection, producing dissonant chords containing flattened 2nds, raised 4ths and major 7ths.
		He ventured occasionally into bitonality — the use of two different keys simultaneously.
		Usually this occurred when a melody in a different key wove around a primary melody in the fundamental key of the music.
	www.opus1.com /~ehoornaert/ROUSSEL/listen.htm (1601 words)

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		Identify 20th century rhythmic devices, including polymeters, changing meters, alternating meters, asymmetric meters, and metric modulation.
		Analyze music utilizing 20th century techniques, including pandiatonicism, serialism, modality, bitonality, exotic scales, and synthetic scales.
		Identify 20th century harmonies, including tall chords, polychords, secundal, quartal, and quintal chords, split-tone chords, and chords of omission and addition.
	www.mccfl.edu /pages/Docs/CouPerSta/MUT_2117.doc (215 words)

	Darius Milhaud - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Milhaud was a member of "Les Six," whose works were influenced by Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau, and was one of the first composers to use bitonality (playing in two keys at once).
		In the '20s and '30s he incorporated jazz and Latin rhythms into his music, especially beautifully done in the soulful La..
		In the '20s and '30s he incorporated jazz and Latin rhythms into his music, especially beautifully done in the soulful La création du monde (1923), also notable in Saudades do Brasil (1921) and Le boeuf sur le toit (1919) (named for the avant-garde artists' cafe).
	store.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,468235,00.html (270 words)

	5august
		bitonality -- music operating in 2 keys simultaneously
		uses bitonality and polyrhythm to convey different events and sounds of fairground
		polyphonic texture (a result of bitonality and polyrhythm)
	www.scar.utoronto.ca /~mepp/vpma93/5august.html (543 words)

	Re: [Finale] independent key sig and global cancel outgoing key
		I'm not going to fire up Finale to test this out, but last time I looked, you didn't need to bother with "independent key sig" just because you're using transposing instruments.
		Key Sig was for bitonality (and tri-tonality, etc...
		incidentally, Ruth König once described bitonality as the art of writing bad music in two keys at the same time.-) Anyway, suggest you try w/out the Ind.KeySig option.
	www.mail-archive.com /finale@mail.shsu.edu/msg02337.html (375 words)

	The Real Allan Holdsworth.com :: View topic - what do you want to read on the forum?
		I don't want to sound out of place here guys, but, I just opened a topic on bitonality, the only guy who shared ideas was sindri.
		so your thread on bitonality was a bit much for me, so i should say "what i would like to see more of here is very basic theory"
		Although I know I'm in the minority (being a non-musician) I think this forum will become less interesting for people who want to be informed about the before mentioned, when it becomes a conversation between musicians about their own life, way of playing, etc. UNLESS: the forum gets the selections, people have talked about earlier.
	www.therealallanholdsworth.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336 (2016 words)

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	The Virtual InkSpot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Now there's a big word you can trot out to amaze your friends sometime: bitonality.
		And then you'll hear bitonality, and all the rest of the things we've been talking about.
		Well, I think by this time you're ready to hear this music of the waves and really know what's going on.
	virtualinkspot.blogspot.com (922 words)

	SquareSound Forums - View Single Post - TheShroud13's Compositions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Your other pieces sound like they are tertian and like you write in wrong notes on occasion.
		It sounds to me like you are trying to use bitonality and chromatic harmony a la Prokofiev or Stravinsky but you are unsure of it's application.
		(or you don't understand the technique involved in implementing these harmonies) As a result it comes off like Bach with wrong notes instead of Stravinsky with Bitonality, if that makes any sense.
	www.squaresound.com /forum/showpost.php?p=54216&postcount=5 (119 words)

	WCPE - Music Terminology
		The most famous bagatelle in music is Beethoven's "Fur Elise."
		Bitonality - The simultaneous juxtaposition of two keys (e.g., C Major and F minor).
		Some 20th century composers who utilized bitonality as a common device were Charles Ives and Darius Milhaud.
	www.wcpe.org /terminology/glossary.shtml (866 words)

	Conlon Nancarrow
		Other studies use strongly contrasting but interlocking phrases, usually with the unifying central pulse implied but never stated.
		Harmonically, Nancarrow retained a constructivist interest in bitonality and polytonality, (few of his works can be called tonal), and a serial 'Study' does exist.
		However, with the method of the player-piano focusing so much of his attention on repetition, unusual harmony or melody became less of a concern (remember that few of his studies last more than 5 or 6 minutes, and even that could take a year to write and hole-punch).
	www.furious.com /perfect/conlonnancarrow.html (1856 words)

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