polychord
Sign in to savethumb|300x300px|Fred Steiner's 1957 Perry Mason theme, "[[Park Avenue Beat", ends with a polychord quoted by Frank Zappa in "Jezebel Boy", Broadway the Hard Way (1988) and described by Walter Everett as "juicy". ]]In music and music theory, a polychord consists of two or more chords, one on top of the other. In chord notation, polychords are written with the top chord above a line and the bottom chord below, for example, F over C (shown below) is notated as .
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thumb|300x300px|Fred Steiner's 1957 Perry Mason theme, "[[Park Avenue Beat", ends with a polychord quoted by Frank Zappa in "Jezebel Boy", Broadway the Hard Way (1988) and described by Walter Everett as "juicy". ]]In music and music theory, a polychord consists of two or more chords, one on top of the other. In chord notation, polychords are written with the top chord above a line and the bottom chord below, for example, F over C (shown below) is notated as . \new PianoStaff 1 } \new Staff { \clef bass 1 } >>
The use of polychords may suggest bitonality or polytonality. Harmonic parallelism may suggest bichords. Examples may be found in Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka, p. 15 (for instance, the Petrushka chord) and Rite of Spring, "Dance of the Adolescents".