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RE: Poulenc Sonata

Author: Doug
Date: 1999-07-29 15:06

The piece, or even just a passage in a piece, must be in two keys at the same time. Good examples can be found by the composers Bartok and Stravinski. Having a piece which is atonal, or even dissonant would not qualify as a bi-tonal example. The Poulenc is modern, often dissonant, but having one clarinet in Bb and one in A would not make the piece, by that quality alone, bi-tonal. It would depend on what notes are written for the instruments. Think of this example: You play in a concert band. The natural scales of some of the instruments are: flute (in C) French horn (in F) clarinet (in Bb) alto saxophone (in Eb). All these instruments can sound in perfect consonance if the correct notes for that sort of sound are written for them. They can also sound dissonant if the composer chooses. But, simply because their natural scales are not the same would not make two of them be bi-tonal with each other.

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