chromatics
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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
Philadelphia and New York have not forgotten the harrowing chromatics in Die Gl�ckliche Hand, which Leopold Stokowski gave three years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
They would take the form of sustained and swelled notes, scales, passages of combined intervals, arpeggios, chromatics, and shakes.
From Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science by Mackinlay, M. (Malcolm) Sterling
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