It is tonal and highly chromatic, not coming across as old-fashioned. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
A chromatic scale. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
chromatic lens. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The term chromatic derives from the Greek word chroma, meaning color. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
For today we chose to share with you this playful set of tea cup stools, which ranks high in chromatic but also originality. From Wordnik.com. [Playdate table with Stools a Smart and Simple Design] Reference
Hence they are considered a defect and are called chromatic aberration. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Blunders] Reference
By far the most common causes of prismatic color, in otherwise carefully constructed objectives, are the so-called chromatic aberrations of second or higher order. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886] Reference
His work supplies not only the very basis of the Impressionist movement proper, but of all that has followed it and will follow it in the study of the so-called chromatic laws. From Wordnik.com. [The French Impressionists (1860-1900)] Reference
(Soundbite of music) BLAUSTEIN: This kind of chromatic motion, where the notes creep along in very small intervals, definitely lets you know that something bad is coming. From Wordnik.com. [Creating a Soundtrack to Evil] Reference
Pupils arranging colours in chromatic order. From Wordnik.com. [The Montessori Method] Reference
The latest addition to this list of "chromatic" collar terms is gold-collar, a word too new to be included in even the most recently published dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference
Minimal distortion, high resolution, minimum artifacts such as chromatic aberrations, ghosting and flaring are the proof of uncompromising imaging made possible by. From Wordnik.com. [LetsGoDigital English Edition] Reference
"Again, these large instruments are much more liable than smaller ones to what is termed 'chromatic' and 'spherical' aberration; and this also is detrimental to definition. From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
For a while he gave himself up to chromatic rumblings. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914] Reference
Scale from Seven (7) diatonic up to twelve (12) chromatic. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
I met the water and fell a few feet into a chromatic cemetery. From Wordnik.com. [Grapple] Reference
By combining these, he was able to form a complete chromatic scale. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
I find my newly discovered world, if I may so speak, a beautiful chromatic desert. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
For this purpose the chromatic elements collect into threads and split lengthwise. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity] Reference
Britain will transcend all preceding schools in the chromatic department of painting. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
And underneath you hear the string doing almost a water, liquid-like chromatic passage. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Schumann: Music amid the Madness] Reference
The music of Japan, though built on the chromatic scale, was much the same as that of China. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
Cloth, beveled edges, embossed in black and gold, with fine chromatic illustration on cover. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers] Reference
Cloth, beveled edges, embossed in black and gold, with fine chromatic illustration mounted on cover. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers] Reference
They are the mutes of costume, and contribute nothing to the chromatic harmony of the social circle. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
The appearance inside the focus exactly resembles that outside when allowance is made for chromatic effects. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
In the chromatic there are two semitones arranged in succession, and the third interval is a tone and a half. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
The chromatic, with its delicate subtlety and with the "crowding" of its notes, gives a sweeter kind of pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
This, added to the agonizing howls of his unfortunate dog, must afford a perfect specimen of the ancient chromatic. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
She wore no rings, but her nails were reddened, and her sleek black hair and scarlet lips completed the chromatic harmony. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
There are three classes of modes: first, that which the Greeks term the enharmonic; second, the chromatic; third, the diatonic. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
As he passed the drawing-room, loud music reached his ear; chromatic fireworks, scales running with the rapidity of the cataract of. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
If the disc appear blurred and coloured, however the focus be adjusted, incomplete correction for chromatic aberration is inferred. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
The suggestion to explain Wagner's harmonies by assuming a "chromatic scale" rests upon a misapprehension of the nature of a scale. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
Doris 'Island Delights, in Hilo, sells a "thermal chromatic" mug that says "The Great Hawaiian Eclipse" when filled with hot liquids. From Wordnik.com. [Cashing In On Eclipsemania] Reference
A dolorous whistle chimed harmonies, and with regular sibilation came to time, quavering out the chromatic moments of this nasal hour. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
They are perfectly pitched -- each contains a handwritten label from the previous owner, a museum director -- and cover two chromatic octaves. From Wordnik.com. [Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Saw Lady] Reference
The work looks restrained, but López-García gets more chromatic melody out of his muted, chalky palette than most artists do from primary colors. From Wordnik.com. [Three Decades In Madrid] Reference
She isn't shy about repainting, however, and it shows in the elegant, brushy edges and the chromatic glow around her trademark images of tubes and water drops. From Wordnik.com. [Coloring Outside the Lines] Reference
And figuring it out, I was really surprised that they're just chromatic blues chords, and so I thought, what would happen if we slow it down, put some horns in?. From Wordnik.com. [Master of the Remix Turns Pop into Funk] Reference
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