polyharmonic

Updated: May 17, 2025

But the penning of music as jagged, cubical, barbarous as the prelude to the third act of Strawinsky's little opera, "The Nightingale," or as naked, uncouth, rectangular, rocklike, polyharmonic, headlong, as some of that of "Le Sacre du printemps" required no less perfect a conviction, no less great a self-reliance.

Paul Rosenfeld - Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers