Chabrier is remembered for his dazzling harmonic colors and his command of orchestral composition.

Critics appreciated a well-thought composition of paintings, attention to detail, as well as harmonic colors and a pleasant atmosphere.

In an orchestra, Ms. Haffner says, the viola "provides harmonic color, the inside voices of a chord."

However, from around 1960, his compositional style started to become more experimental, introducing a more complicated harmonic, rhythmic and sound colour.

The same is true where harmonic colour is to be a prominent feature of the music.

These chords with augmented fourths are both strongly dissonant and can add considerably to the variety of harmonic colour available.

Here they join another fine pianist, Mr. Copland, in a trio that promises to favor dark harmonic colors and rhythmic undulation.

The passionate elements of the opera are given warm and expressive music, while the score in general is marked by subtle harmonic colours and deft orchestration.

A music robot, creating random combinations of sound, harmonic colors and shades that flitted agilely, too subtle to pin down.

The law of harmonic sounds reappears in the harmonic colors.