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- Title
Making it Modern: Chromaticism and Phrase Structure in Twentieth-Century Tonal Music.
- Authors
Rifkin, Deborah
- Abstract
The author distinguishes the chromatism used by twentieth-century composers to express modernism in their music. The author examines how these composers create tonal continuity by thwarting them with anomalous chromatic gestures, which he argues function as metaphors for modernity. The composers whose works are examined include Samuel Barber, Arthur Honneger, Francis Poulenc and Sergei Prokofiev. Examples of chromatism in their works are considered.
- Subjects
MUSICAL composition; COMPOSERS; MUSIC theory; MUSICAL form; BARBER, Samuel, 1910-1981; HONNEGER, Arthur; PROKOFIEV, Sergey, 1891-1953
- Publication
Theory & Practice, 2006, Vol 31, p133
- ISSN
0741-6156
- Publication type
Article