{"id":46,"date":"2017-12-28T02:38:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T02:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2018-01-06T22:33:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T22:33:44","slug":"bitonality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/bernsteins-language\/bitonality","title":{"rendered":"Bitonality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]If you have ever been to a birthday party and heard two people singing Happy Birthday together, except they each started on a different note, than you already know what bitonality is.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve enlisted my friend Steve to help me demonstrate this![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/youtu.be\/RnUKPXACXMM&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1YpQN_q2_R8&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]Bitonality is simply playing in two keys at the same time.\u00a0 Bernstein loved these clashes; he called bitonality &#8220;exciting&#8221; and, referring to a piece called <em>Saudade do Brasil<\/em> by French composer Darius Milhaud, he wrote, \u201c\u2026the left hand in G and the right hand in D\u2026 do you see how charming and relaxed bitonality can be?\u201d (The Unanswered Question pg 361)<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Bernstein himself explain bitonality at 1:06 in the video to the left of his Young People&#8217;s Concert.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]You can find moments of bitonality peppered throughout the <em>Serenade<\/em>, but a great example is the duet between the violin and cello (played in this short excerpt by the piano) at the beginning of the Socrates movement.\u00a0 (1:20 on the <a href=\"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/bernsteins-serenade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recording<\/a>).\u00a0 The violin starts on an F.\u00a0 The cello plays the same melody but starts on an A.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/youtu.be\/vLSzrF_J4_8&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]If you have ever been to a birthday party and heard two people singing Happy Birthday together, except they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/201"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}