chromatic

Examples

• All

• For bassists, the excerpt required more shifts in order to manage the higher notes and chromatic passages.

  Academic text (2013)

• That's how the scale goes in fixed do For chromatic notes, they work like this.

  Rick Beato

• And then you begin to understand that what we're talking about is chromatic and harmonic meaning like music.

  André Duqum

• Subsequent patterns, in the same key, should gradually increase in complexity and length and include chromatic pitches.

  Academic text (2006)

• And last Thursday we were talking about melody in terms of scales, major scales, minor scales, chromatic scales.

• Teachers find that angular and chromatic melodies are usually too difficult for children to sing with tonal accuracy.

  Academic text (2003)

• The optional choir, which had previously sung a chromatic cluster, glissandos upwards an octave.

  Academic text (2000)

• The musician played a complex piece that heavily featured the chromatic scale.

• In jazz, improvisation often incorporates chromatic runs to add tension to the melody.

• The exercise focused on practicing chromatic notes to improve finger dexterity on the piano.

Antonyms

D

diatonic

• Specialized

1 8.0

A scale in a major or minor key that uses only seven notes

Compounds

C

chromatic aberration

• Specialized

1 8.8

A problem in a camera lens that makes colored edges appear in photos

C

chromatic scale

• Specialized

1 7.4

A scale of twelve notes that move by half steps within one octave

C

chromatic color

4.7

A color with hue such as red, not grey or black

C

chromatic vision

6.5

To see and tell different colors apart

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology