polytonality

Polytonality (also polyharmony) is the musical use of more than one key simultaneously. Bitonality is the use of only two different keys at the same time.

Another early use of polytonality occurs in the classical period in the finale of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's composition A Musical Joke, which he deliberately ends with the violins, violas and horns playing in four discordant keys simultaneously.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Polytonality is considered to be a technique of 20th-century music, however, earlier examples can be found in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Ein musikalischer Spass (1787), where he used the technique for comic effect.

Polytonality approaches the domain of atonality because a melody constructed with the notes of this chord (the twelve tones of the scale) could be in any key whatsoever and thus escape any sense of tonality.

Polytonality (also polyharmony) is the musical use of more than one key simultaneously. Bitonality is the use of only two different keys at the same time.

Polymodal is having multiple modes or modalities. Examples include: Polymodality, multiple stimulus modalities (e.g. free nerve endings) Polytonality, multiple musical modes.

Polytonality refers to two tonal centers being used at the same time. A lot of contemporary, serious composers, classical composers, use two tonal centers called polytonality. A polychord is different. A polychord is two cords put together.

Which best defines polytonality? a musical effect produced by the music being written in more than one key at the same time.

If polytonal music is, by origin, essentially diatonic and necessarily melodic - its harmonies derived from the domain of diatonic harmony and counterpoint - atonal music takes its origins from chromaticism. Just as diatoni- cism is based on the triad, chromaticism takes its origin from the chord of the domi- nant seventh.

consisting of many voices or sounds. Music. having two or more voices or parts, each with an independent melody, but all harmonizing; contrapuntal (opposed to homophonic). pertaining to music of this kind.

In music pantonality may refer to: Twelve-tone music, seen as an extension of tonality to all keys (rather than to no key) Nonfunctional tonality or pandiatonicism.

noun. poly·​harmony. "+ : a harmonic structure that characteristically introduces two or more simultaneous musical harmonies or strata of harmony.