Definition of "chromaticism" []

• The quality or state of being chromatic (noun)
• The act or action of chromaticizing: the use of chromatic notes or tones (contrasted with diatonicism) (noun)

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• ""But he was a very innovative composer, and this music is fabulous — a post-Reger kind of chromaticism, experimental but still with a conservative sound.""
• "In these sometimes bizarre works, many of which evoke the despair of the composer's old age (the wandering harmonies of "Nuages Gris"), Liszt flirted with the extreme chromaticism ("En Reve"), augmented chords and whole-tone scales ("La Lugubre Gondola") that would provide paths out of tonality for later composers."
• "Much of Reger's music aims to reconcile post-Wagnerian chromaticism with a classical austerity that peers back through Brahms to Bach."