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What does bitonal mean?

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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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So there we were, this black bro' frisks me down with his bitonal paw and relieves me of my wallet.
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.
As in previous interval canons, although the melody is traditional, the interval of a fourth between the voices creates a bitonal sonoric result.
Frequent bitonal writing in keys a tone apart adds grit to her harmony.
Aboriginal songs include many kinds of vocalizations ranging from growling, grunting, and shrieking to bitonal syllabic chanting.

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