polytonality
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A silent gaze, like white light being all colors, divulges all things in polyrhythms and polytonality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2020
His very stubbornness and strangeness — the polytonality, the blockiness of his playing, the oppositional push-and-pull between his piano and Paul Desmond’s alto saxophone — makes the Brubeck quartet’s best work still sound original.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2012
As for Charlap and Rosnes, the contrast between his swinging, bebop precision and her splayed, pulsing polytonality is a special treat.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2011
Don't know much about polytonality, as Sam Cooke never sang.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2011
Both Brubeck and Desmond habitually venture into keys that are entirely foreign to the one they are supposed to be playing in, for they are firm believers in what musicians call polytonality.
From Time Magazine Archive
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