Word: chromaticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Senior-citizen status may have been her chronological due, but it never seemed to fit the refined beat of her music, which--young fans in Italy to the contrary--was less straight jazz than pop on an elegant upswing. There is no doubt that Billie Holiday had a darker genius...
His mastery is perhaps most evident in his recording of the Godowsky piece--a work only the greatest virtuosos will dare--on his 1964 Vanguard album The Virtuoso Piano. Wild commands its many contrapuntal voices, shifting chromatic harmonies and labyrinthine technical complexities. "When the ears become more important than the...
Never rigid, Rosen's ideas grow from his intimacy with the music. The book comes with a CD (a wonderful idea) on which Rosen plays 16 selections that he analyzes in the book. Rosen has concurrently released a separate recording, also called The Romantic Generation (Music Masters Classics), that contains...
"The Remnant" incorporates a series of atonal compositions which further add to the work's subliminal spell. While one scene mixes chromatic pitches with blobs of piano notes, another combines the shriveled sound of a rewinding tape recorder with the cacophony of urban traffic. Bellowing horns mark the beginning of...
The radiant Sunset may not be Lloyd Webber's best score, but it is his most seamlessly and artfully constructed. There is a resemblance between this show and The Phantom of the Opera -- reclusive mad protagonist conceives passion for young member of opposite sex -- but that is merely plot. Musically...