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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. Polyvalence or polyvalency is the use of more than one harmonic function, from the same key, at the same time.
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Polytonality, in music, the simultaneous occurrence of two or more different tonalities or keys (the interrelated sets of notes and chords used in a composition). If only two keys are employed, the term bitonality is sometimes used. Polytonality first appeared in music of the early 20th century.
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Polytonality is a catchall theoretical term that can be applied to a multiplicity of musical concepts that need to be examined individually. Composers such as the American Charles Ives (1874-1954) write works that consist of strata of primarily diatonic parts, just each in a different key.
List of pieces using polytonality and/or bitonality. Samuel Barber. Symphony No. 2 (1944) [citation needed] Béla Bartók. Mikrokosmos Volume 5 number 125: The opening (mm. 1-76) of "Boating", (actually bimodality) in which the right hand uses pitches of E ♭ dorian and the left hand uses those of either G mixolydian or dorian
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Polytonality presents itself as another way of extending and exploring tonality in more varied ways, like composing chromatic passages without resorting to functional chromaticism.
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