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• By the late 1940s, he was already employing modern classical ideas such as polytonality and dissonance, and working in unusual time signatures to create a distinctive...
• Many of Ives "compositions were ground breaking and anticipated 20th century musical techniques such as polytonality, atonality, 12 tone formations, polymetres, and...
• It isn't difficult at all to trace a line from either Milhaud's polytonality or "wrong note" basses or Cowell's cluster or late pandiatonic music to those chords of...
• Ms. Schneider also presented a two-movement piece combining "Thompson Fields" (featuring pianist Frank Kimbrough), an arresting and tranquil depiction of the view from a...