Talk:List of polytonal pieces

Composers but no piece names
Some of this page just lists names of composers who have ostensibly used polytonality (eg "Frederic Chopin") but no pieces by those composers. This is called "List of polytonal pieces" so whoever put those names there needs to add pieces.Lbark 01:40, 1 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Five+ years on, I've removed the composers' names. --   Jack of Oz   [your turn]  00:55, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Merge
Let’s merge this page into Polytonality. I see no good reason why people should have to go to two separate pages to find this information. Also this list is quite incomplete and poorly sourced. It doesn’t need to be a separate article. If no one objects I’ll merge. --S.dedalus 20:01, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Is this an example?
D*Note - "Rain" at around 1m00s. (This track is on the blue "Dorado" compilation.) I'm no musicologist, but I always had a feeling it was polytonal. Shoot me down if I am wrong. It might be good to have an example of "modern" music. Strange that D*Note don't have a Wikipedia page. Uncoolbob (talk) 08:37, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Bartok Boating
Have changed the description of Bartok's Boating to say the right hand is Eb dorian, instead of Eb pentatonic (which it definitely isn't, on account of all the A flats and G flats). However, this may still be wrong - and may not match the provided reference. Would appreciate it if someone could double-check this - I'm not an expert. --KitMcCarthy (talk) 18:29, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Wagner: Brangäne's Warning
Einsam Wachend in der Nacht, the famous shimmering solo sung by Isolde's chambermaid Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde, strikes me as borderline bitonal. The orchestra is clearly modulating from one key into another without coming to rest (a famous trademark of the harmonics of this opera) and the singer's lines are sometimes in the same key as the orchestra but at several points they're not. The solo is often sung from a location to the side of/behind the stage, and with a great deal of chest vibrato, which adds further to the sense of blurred, a bit unfocused key relationships.

The solo is sung a bit differently by different singers, but here is an example from the Bayreuth Festival in 1958 with Grace Hoffmann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4psg9umPE2g 188.150.64.57 (talk) 01:52, 31 May 2023 (UTC)