Crossword-Solution: CHROMATICS 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

But when he is madly in love, It’s certain to tell on his singing— You can’t do chromatics With proper emphatics When anguish your bosom is wringing! When distracted with worries in plenty, And his pulse is a hundred and twenty, And his fluttering bosom the slave of mistrust is, A tenor can’t do himself justice.

The A minor Mazurka for me is full of hectic despair, whatever that may mean, and its serpentining chromatics and apparently suspended close--on the chord of the sixth--gives an impression of morbid irresolution modulating into a sort of desperate gayety.

Indeed, the Rondo may be said to overflow with joyousness; now the notes run at random hither and thither, now tumble about head over heels, now surge in bold arpeggios, now skip from octave to octave, now trip along in chromatics, now vent their gamesomeness in the most extravagant capers.

Cadenzas, glissandos, arpeggios, chromatics, syncopations, blue melodies--these are the embroidery of sound.

The harmonisation is extraordinary, not only for its gigantic strength, but for the free employment of chromatics that do not weaken it: in fact, chromatic harmony is so employed throughout the _Mastersingers_ that it sounds diatonic.