Note 111 — Chapter IX · THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
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The inscription Cromatici, a note nere on the title page of some of di Rore’s madrigals, which has been thought to indicate the chromatic nature of these compositions, refers, as Riemann clearly shows (Handbuch der Musikgeschichte II¹. 411), simply to the color of the notes, croma being a current name for the eighth note since early times.