Meanings of chromaticism in English

Composer Pierre Boulez write that modern music began with this piece with its chromaticism and free tonality.

Nor has he been profoundly affected by the passion for unbridled chromaticism engendered in modern music by the procedures of Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner.

As to the predominating chromaticism of his style, it is not to be found in Polish folk- music; although slight rudiments are discoverable (see Nos.

Insistent triads and nervy chromaticisms fashion the horrors concealed behind seven doors in the duke's castle.