"Chromatic" is a word in ENGLISH
Relating to color, or to colors.
Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or
semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the
diatonic scale.
On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.
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The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale.
Read the complete definitionA graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning …
Read the complete definitionThe interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.
Read the complete definitionThe interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.
Read the complete definitionTo mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme …
Read the complete definitionGreater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major.
Read the complete definitionThe scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic …
Read the complete definitionThe eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal …
Read the complete definitionThe distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale …
Read the complete definitionHence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals.
Read the complete definitionHalf a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.
Read the complete definitionAn interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.
Read the complete definitionThe interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.
Read the complete definitionThe interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between …
Read the complete definitionThe larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a …
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