Polystylism is the use of multiplestyles ortechniques in literature, art, film, or, especially, music.
Some prominentcontemporary polystylist composers includePeter Maxwell Davies,[1]Alfred Schnittke,[2] andJohn Zorn.[3] Polystylist composers from earlier in the twentieth century includeCharles Ives[4] andErik Satie.[5] Among literary figures,James Joyce has been referred to as a polystylist.[6] On the other hand, composers includingSofia Gubaidulina have rejected the term as not applicable to their work.[7]
Though perhaps not the original source of the term, the first important discussion of the subject is Alfred Schnittke's essay "Polystylistic Tendencies in Modern Music (1971)".[8] The composers cited by Schnittke as those who make use of polystylism areAlban Berg,Luciano Berio,Pierre Boulez,Edison Denisov,Hans Werner Henze,Mauricio Kagel,Jan Klusák,György Ligeti,Carl Orff,Arvo Pärt,Krzysztof Penderecki,Henri Pousseur,Rodion Shchedrin,Dmitri Shostakovich,Sergei Slonimsky,Karlheinz Stockhausen,Igor Stravinsky,Boris Tishchenko,Anton Webern, andBernd Alois Zimmermann.[8]
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