| The idiom is essentially tonal though dissonance, bitonality, and, occasionally, polytonality are liberally used. |
| Satie was in advance of his time with his love of bitonality, polytonality and non-triadic harmony to name but a few of his gravity-breaking techniques. |
| Voice may also have a bitonality or diplophonia, with the perception of two different fundamental frequencies simultaneously. |
| And although Kevin Gill did what he could tomake something out of the organ part one constantly had anuneasy feeling of bitonality, even in fully accompanied passages. |
| In Example 5, this concept is shown in a piece by Robert Starer entitled Black and White, which places the bitonality directly in the key signature. |
| With its banjo-plucking effects, bitonality and sleazy violin portamentos sounding as weird as Charles Ives in a smoke-filled speakeasy. |
