chromatics
Americannoun
noun
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The band played wall-of-sound guitar music, combining major chord lifts with chromatics from their native land.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2018
There were harmonic patterns and motifs that peeped through the dense chromatics; and Josefowicz, playing from memory, drew a standing ovation for her intense delivery.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2017
McLaughlin began to paint just as its gestural extravagances and emotionally fraught chromatics began to coalesce into the New York School.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2016
She sang her high F, managed chromatics and staccati with incredible ease.
From Time Magazine Archive
Presumably the chromatics had reduced the listener to a condition of helpless despair.
From The Daughters of a Genius by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
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