chromatic scale

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chromatic scale

n. Music

A scale consisting of 12 semitones.

chromatic scale

(Classical Music) music a twelve-note scale including all the semitones of the octave

chromat′ic scale′

a musical scale progressing by semitones.

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Noun

chromatic scale - a 12-note scale including all the semitones of the octave

musical scale, scale - (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)

Translations

kromatikus

scala cromatica

kromatisk skala

References in classic literature ?

But suddenly a storm came on, chromatic scales and diminished sevenths were heard in the orchestra, everyone ran off, again dragging one of their number away, and the curtain dropped.

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In Villa La Roche, the chromatic scale is determined by an altogether more elevated architectural fragment: a corner of the famed Parisian residence designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in the 1920s to house its owner's collection of Cubist pictures.

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Eventually he wrote 12 symphonies, one for each key in the chromatic scale.

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