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What does bitonal mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word bitonal? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (music) That has two tonic centres simultaneously
  2. (music) Of or pertaining to bitonality
  3. Of two tones, or shades of colour.
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The violins thirds quiveringly descend from the climax to a low F and the final quatrain returns to narration, over the fiddle's sustained bitonal notes.
In addition, processing standards require conversion of original grey scale images to bitonal formats to reduce file size.
The Tarant music was interesting to write, because it's bitonal, or at least bimodal.
So there we were, this black bro' frisks me down with his bitonal paw and relieves me of my wallet.
This concerto began with extended cacophony, then bitonal juxtapositions of the soloist to the orchestra, and an admixture of references to variety of musical genres.
Frequent bitonal writing in keys a tone apart adds grit to her harmony.

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