Word: chromaticisms
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Walker's exhibit unabashedly disturbs the viewer with representation of the images and history underlying racism in America. Like the chromatic form of the piece--black paper on white walls--the exhibit deals with race only in black and white. This form alone, in its insistence on turning negative space...
Since the German musical scale contains an "H" (their "H" is our "B" and their "B" is our "B-flat"), Bach's name spells out a chromatic and eerie four-note melody. According to his son, at the point in the "Art of the Fugue" when Bach brought in that...
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...