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The 24 pages that link to Chromaticism, each with the reason it gives.

• Richard WagnerRelated: Wagner’s chromatic harmony expands tonal tension, notably in Tristan und Isolde.

• Romantic musicRelated: Chromatic harmony widened tonal color and heightened tension in Romantic compositions.

• Arnold SchoenbergRelated: Increasing chromaticism helped Schoenberg loosen the pull of traditional tonality.

• AtonalityNarrower topic: Atonality often uses dense chromatic pitch collections, though chromatic music can remain tonal.

• Charlie ParkerRelated: Parker’s flowing chromatic lines connected chord tones with striking melodic continuity.

• MadrigalRelated: Madrigalists used unexpected chromatic turns to intensify emotionally charged words.

• Alban BergRelated: Berg’s saturated chromatic language links late-Romantic harmony to atonality.

• Sergei RachmaninoffRelated: His rich harmonic language often colors tonal melodies with chromatic motion.

• Chromatic scaleNarrower topic: The scale supplies the full pitch vocabulary from which chromatic passages draw.

• Word paintingRelated: Chromatic notes can sharpen portrayals of pain, darkness, or other charged words.

• Tristan und IsoldeRelated: Its pervasive chromatic writing gives the score much of its unsettled character.

• Burt BacharachRelated: Chromatic notes give Bacharach’s harmonies their frequent surprise and directional pull.

• Paul HindemithCompared with: His expanded tonality differs from both strict diatonic writing and atonal systems.

• Gabriel FauréRelated: Fauré’s subtle chromatic harmony gives his music its fluid tonal character.

• Musical modernismRelated: Its expansion helped late-Romantic harmony approach the tonal instability of modernism.

• Coleman HawkinsRelated: Hawkins used chromatic notes to connect chord tones and intensify harmonic motion.

• Hugo WolfRelated: Wolf’s shifting chromatic harmony intensifies verbal nuance and emotional instability.

• Alexander ScriabinRelated: Increasingly dense chromatic writing loosened the sense of a stable tonal center in his later music.

• César FranckRelated: His shifting chromatic harmony gives many works their distinctive tension and color.

• Carlo GesualdoRelated: His madrigals use striking chromatic motion to intensify words and affect.

• Das RheingoldRelated: Chromatic harmony intensifies the drama’s unstable desires and unresolved tensions.

• Girolamo FrescobaldiRelated: Chromatic turns intensify the expressive contrasts in his toccatas and variation works.

• Music of Star WarsRelated: Chromatic writing helps create tension and instability in many dramatic passages.

• Nonchord toneRelated: Chromatic nonchord tones can add color and sharpen directed melodic motion.