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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

polytonality. The simultaneous use of more than one key in different contrapuntal strands, an effect found in works by Holst, Milhaud, Bartók, and others. The use of only two keys is bitonality.

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