Word: chromaticisms
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45 Burps. Simon also squarely faces a fact often obscured by sentimental hindsight: a great many bands of the era were inevitably cheap, slick or inept. He quotes Arranger Gordon Jenkins, after an evening of listening to the radio in 1937: "I heard 458 chromatic runs on accordions, 911 '...
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords . . . At the end, the refrain, "I'd love to turn you on," leads to a hair-raising chromatic crescendo by a full orchestra and a final blurred chord that is sustained for 40 seconds, like a trance...
The familiar chromatic scale used in Western music is made up of half tones (the difference in pitch between two adjacent keys on the piano). Quarter tones are twice as close together, and thus produce an octave with 24 notes instead of the usual twelve. Such fine gradations of pitch...
∙Gregorio Vardanega, 43, a native of Italy, studied painting and sculpture in Argentina, now works in Paris, where he shifted seven years ago into luminous constructions, like his blocklike, architectural "chromatic progressions." His goals in art are to produce "precision, harmony, cleanliness and order."
The Idyll's original performance was by a minimum of musicians strung along the stairway of the Wagner villa. In a misguided attempt at authenticity, Hathaway eliminated most of the Bach Society's already small complement of strings. Without security in numbers. the string players were cowed by the infamous...