chromaticism

"But he was a very innovative composer, and this music is fabulous — a post-Reger kind of chromaticism, experimental but still with a conservative sound."

Portrait of the Artist as a Music Fan Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010

Mr. Grimley observes that "For Sibelius, Neilsen and, for that matter, for Vaughan Williams, the turn to diatonicism in the first decade of the 20th century was a strongly modernist gesture—a search for strength, clarity and tonal freedom through a positive move away from what they regarded as a decadent, emotionally saturated late-Wagnerian chromaticism."

Nordic Exposure at Bard Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

In these sometimes bizarre works, many of which evoke the despair of the composer's old age (the wandering harmonies of "Nuages Gris"), Liszt flirted with the extreme chromaticism ("En Reve"), augmented chords and whole-tone scales ("La Lugubre Gondola") that would provide paths out of tonality for later composers.

Pianists Andre Watts and Evgeny Kissin offer Liszt recitals 2011

Much of Reger's music aims to reconcile post-Wagnerian chromaticism with a classical austerity that peers back through Brahms to Bach.

Reger: Violin Concerto; two Romances – review 2012

That semiotically nostalgic cast had become more potent with the rise of atonality — when George Rochberg looked to rewind atonal modernism, for example, he opted for Mahlerian tonality — but, of course, the seeds of atonality can be found in the adventurous chromaticism of late Romanticism.

Every night, they say, he sings the herd to sleep Matthew Guerrieri 2008

That semiotically nostalgic cast had become more potent with the rise of atonality — when George Rochberg looked to rewind atonal modernism, for example, he opted for Mahlerian tonality — but, of course, the seeds of atonality can be found in the adventurous chromaticism of late Romanticism.

Archive 2008-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

They articulate the evolution of English music from simple canonic rounds to the gorgeous chromaticism of Herbert Howells and scintillations of Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett.

The Book of Common Prayer, part 5: The importance of evensong 2010

Tone color may have issued from Wagnerian chromaticism but it culminated in Schoenberg, whose music and paintings Kandinsky so admired that he translated his essays, wrote on his paintings and invited Schoenberg to contribute to the first issue of the Blue Rider Almanac, 1912, co-edited with the painter Franz Marc, which was to act as a kind of symposium for all the arts.

Kandinsky's Futurity 2009

Tone color may have issued from Wagnerian chromaticism but it culminated in Schoenberg, whose music and paintings Kandinsky so admired that he translated his essays, wrote on his paintings and invited Schoenberg to contribute to the first issue of the Blue Rider Almanac, 1912, co-edited with the painter Franz Marc, which was to act as a kind of symposium for all the arts.

Kandinsky's Futurity 2009

I would be curious to know whether composers who work with just intonation came to it through diatonicism and then realized how cool it would be to adapt it to chromaticism, or whether they were chromatic from the start and just continually dissatisfied with the equal-tempered results.

Arguments, agreements, advice, answers, articulate announcements Matthew Guerrieri 2007