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The use of different musical styles or techniques in a composition is known as ______.

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The answer is polystylism. Polystylism is the use of multiple styles or techniques in not only in music or composition also in literature, art, film, or, especially, music, and is a postmodern characteristic. The mixture of two traditional chords sounding together is known as a polychord.

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