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chromatic scale

NOUN
  1. a 12-note scale including all the semitones of the octave

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  • It was at this time that he divided the scale into 43 microtones - there are 12 semitone intervals in a traditional chromatic scale - and began inventing instruments that could play his new microtonal music.
  • Goethe argued that when the three primary colors were combined their unity contained the whole chromatic scale.
  • Within the realm of the image, the two ends of the chromatic scale stand out via the characters' insistence on evoking black and white animals, especially the zebra.
  • Von Bulow makes this statement: "As the peculiar fingering adopted by Chopin for chromatic scales in thirds appears to us to render their performance in legatissimo utterly unattainable on our modern instruments, we have exchanged it, where necessary, for the older method of Hummel. Chopin : the Man and His Music
  • * Trombone: A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet family, the only wind instrument possessing a complete chromatic scale enharmonically true, like the human voice or the violin, and hence very valuable in the orchestra. God's Trombones Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
  • When the holes are placed at proportioned intervals, a simple chromatic scale can be produced.
  • Below is the chromatic scale, both ascending and descending.
  • Ex. 4 shows an octave of the chromatic scale beginning on C, notated in sharps ascending and flats descending.
  • The chromatic scale includes five additional notes - the sharps and flats (black keys of a piano).
  • a chromatic scale
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