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F major and F sharp minor appear simultaneously in Ravel's bitonal passage from L'Enfant et les sortilèges.

In music, a combination of two parts in different keys, as in Stravinsky's Duo Concertante (1931–32) for violin and piano. Music of more than two simultaneous keys is called polytonality.



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