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  • n  music that uses two or more different keys at the same time

  • Composer Darius Milhaud's urge to giantism began 40 years ago, at a time when he was intriguing the world's musical taste buds with a potage of polytonality sweetened by a dash of.
  • A composer who experimented with polytonality (writing in two or more keys simultaneously) before Stravinsky even thought about Firebird (1910), Ives somewhat whimsically deeded .
  • In his days with the Groupe des Six in Paris, he expanded music's language with his studies of polytonality, meter and counterpoint, but he also wrote music that was crippled by .

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