chromatics

Definitions

Examples

• It began on a high note, descending in weird chromatics to the lowest tone the human ear could resolve.

• They made themselves a bed of leaves and lay down; but the Chromatics made such a noise that they could not go to sleep.

• He would not dare keep her in his castle, because the Chromatics are such gossips that the whole kingdom would know it at once.

• They form a refinement in chromatics based, as at present appears, on the whole-tone scale.

• Chromatics, like little tongues of flame, appear in the accompaniment.