chromaticity

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The score careers crazily, rapid chromaticisms forcing the music asunder while the trombones bulldoze through with plunging chords, all a prelude to the hero's climactic cry of "victory!"

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2011

Giving an immediate impression of grace and elegance, it soon shows itself as seething with invention, full of tugging chromaticisms and deviant harmonies held firm by ostinato bass lines or other repeated structures.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2010