polytonal
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- polytonally adverb
Etymology
Origin of polytonal
Example Sentences
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“Deep Blue” touches on Minimalism, psychedelia and traditional jazz, with a steady backbeat, a polytonal piano lick, electric sitar and back-talk from trumpet, clarinet and violin.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024
Still, Mr. McDonald said that Milhaud’s polytonal score, with different keys scraping against each other at any one moment, could be rewarding when approached the right way.
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2017
Some of his music — not all — contains the strong, dire melodies and collective surges of power, polytonal and polyrhythmic, that suggest the work of John Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders.
From New York Times • May 9, 2016
Best item: Plain Ole Blues, a cumulative band number to which the irrepressible Lizzie adds a polytonal obbligato.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was writing music with strange, exciting rhythms and polytonal harmonies before Stravinsky and Schonberg.
From Time Magazine Archive
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