#polytonality — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #polytonality, aggregated by home.social.
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Polytonality series, part 4 - common ground between Vincent Persichetti and Jerry Bergonzi: https://glennwhite.net/blog/polytonality-4
#music #theory #musictheory #polytonal #polytonality #bitonal #bitonality #multitonic #jazz #improvisation #saxophone
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Part 2 of my series on polytonality: https://glennwhite.net/blog/polytonality-2
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Several years ago, I compiled a writing sample as an application to a PhD program. I didn't get in, but I still think the writing is pretty good. I parsed it out, and humbly submit the first installment: https://glennwhite.net/blog/polytonality-1
#music #theory #musictheory #polytonality #polytonal #jazz #saxophone #improvisation #improv #harmony #bitonality #bitonal -
Toward the end of his life, after having resisted #atonality (for want of a better term) for about 50 years, and kept #tonality alive through various "tricks" (#polytonality, #polyrhythm, ironic use of classical forms and citations, #collage... all devices which Bernstein once nicknamed "#tonal refreshers"), Stravinsky, whose personal beliefs were becoming increasingly religious & mystic, finally caved in to #dodecaphonic and #serial techniques, albeit in an idiosyncratically Stravinskian way...
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Toward the end of his life, after having resisted #atonality (for want of a better term) for about 50 years, and kept #tonality alive through various "tricks" (#polytonality, #polyrhythm, ironic use of classical forms and citations, #collage... all devices which Bernstein once nicknamed "#tonal refreshers"), Stravinsky, whose personal beliefs were becoming increasingly religious & mystic, finally caved in to #dodecaphonic and #serial techniques, albeit in an idiosyncratically Stravinskian way...