polytonality

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | 202 words | 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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