Polytonal

Définitions de « polytonal »

Polytonal - Adjectif

• (Musique) Relatif à l'utilisation simultanée de plusieurs tonalités dans une composition musicale.

  Dans son œuvre, le compositeur explore les paysages sonores audacieux du polytonal, superposant plusieurs tonalités pour créer une harmonie complexe et riche.

Étymologie de « polytonal »

Évolution historique de l’usage du mot « polytonal » depuis 1800

Synonymes de « polytonal »

• bitonal

Citations contenant le mot « polytonal »

• Après avoir exploré la semaine dernière les gammes complémentaires et l'utilisation de la gamme pentatonique dans cadre bitonal, nous allons aujourd'hui continuer notre étude de la polytonalité en nous penchant sur les polyaccords.

• Chailly tended to the middle ground, striving to reconcile mid-European tradition and note-row elements with the specifically Latin lyric strain "mixing dissonance with sweetness and elegance" that is found in Italian music from Rossini to Puccini. Chailly was never afraid to be eclectic, embracing 12-tone, tonal, bitonal and polytonal techniques, in a way that anticipated today's stylistic liberalism.

• They came in their thousands again last night, most – I’m guessing – for “the Elgar”. Lacking faith that Tasmin Little could fill the enormous soul of that most elusive of violin concertos – a prejudice, alas, fulfilled - I put my money on the polytonal jungle Percy Grainger grows from pastoral seeds at the heart of his wacky In a Nutshell Suite. Yet unforgettably though Sir Andrew Davis swept it along, even Grainger was overshadowed by the lone, late-night transcendentalism of folk singer June Tabor.

• Big band centenary tribute sports fine solo and ensemble work and arranging surprises such as the startling polytonal statement on Chi Chi

• Mr. Bley’s style of playing was melodic, measured, bluesy, often polytonal and seemingly effortless. He took as long as he needed to finish a thought, and at the tempo he chose for it. He loved standards but distrusted the strictures of the 32-bar song form, and especially distrusted repetition. His notes could move slowly without telegraphing their destination, drawling down into nothing or cohering into bright, purposefully gapped lines, with backing chords that kept changing the tonal center.

• He appeared on landmark recordings of the time by the drummer Sunny Murray and the trumpeter Bill Dixon, and in 1968 released his first album as a leader, “It’s Not Up to Us.” On these records and elsewhere, Mr. Lancaster had more than one style: a hard, bright sound influenced by Coltrane and measured out in long, fast, polytonal peals, and a much more measured, melodic and almost folklike way of playing.

Traductions du mot « polytonal »

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• Définitions du Wiktionnaire
• Définitions du TLFi
• Synonymes de polytonal sur lebonsynonyme.fr