- Nielsen, Carl by Jasmin Warren
... forms but using intense chromaticism combined with a lyric, melodic strain—emerged after 1900. The last five of his six symphonies (1902–25) are the core of his work, but he also composed many short orchestra pieces, piano and chamber music, concertos for violin, flute, and clarinet, and a wind quintet.
- musica ficta by Christian Ramsey
... chromatic notes ( see chromaticism) during performances. According to treatises of the times, it was left to the performers to “correct” certain intervals. Which intervals were to be changed, and how and under what circumstances, varied over time. This practice was responsible for the introduction of accidentals (sharps, flats, naturals) into musical notation ...
- chromaticism by Victoria Burns
... . Strictly controlled chromaticism, as in the ornamentation of Frédéric Chopin, did not threaten the perception of tonality. However, from the mid-19th century on, complaints were heard with ever greater frequency that it was difficult to perceive what a given piece's tonal centre was, the chromaticism in the works of Richard Wagner being the most notorious...
- Chromaticism by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... is more common than chromaticism, since every chromaticism is an alteration, but not every alteration is chromatic; an alteration in C major, for example, may lead to the establishment of a new key. Chromatic alteration is a real change in a diatonic degree in one voice; alteration occurs when the diatonic variant of that degree is given before the altered note ...
- serialism by Kelly Stevens
... culmination of the growth of chromaticism in the late 19th and early 20th century. In an attempt to erase the system of tonality, which he regarded as outworn but which frequently asserted itself even in the music of composers who desired to transcend it, Schoenberg's original method stipulated (among several other requirements) that no note could be repeated before all ...