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Expanded or extended tonality can be related to composers such as Hindemith and early Schoenberg. It means extension of the common practice tonality. It results in highly chromatic music, where remotely related regions / harmonies are introduced, often in rather dense manner, free use of extended chords (9ths, 11ths, 13ths) as well as quartal harmony. Basically, it is all about quite free use of the whole chromatic gamut, while still maintaining a sense of central tone (tonic), though it is often hard to determine if you are in major or minor due to the high degree of chromaticism.

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