Strauss uses something called polytonality, which is when you have different tones playing at the same time. If you want to imagine what that sounds like, it’s a little bit like the “Twilight ...

polytonality; atonality: oscillating meters or no bar-lines at all; heaps of dissonance out of which could suddenly emerge a saccharine sweet hymn. Such juxtapositions were not just modernist ...

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