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If you have trouble keeping track of the notes, use a piano keyboard, a written chromatic scale, or the chromatic fingerings for your instrument to count half steps. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
Young instrumentalists are encouraged to practice playing the chromatic scale in order to ensure that they know the fingerings for all the notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
There is basically only one chromatic scale; you can start it on any note, but the pitches will end up being the same as the pitches in any other chromatic scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
For major and minor scales, there are seven notes; for pentatonic, five; for a chromatic scale, twelve. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
A second technician gauges Werner’s eye color against a chromatic scale on which sixty or so shades of blue are displayed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
Because of this, most traditional and popular Western music uses major or minor scales rather than the chromatic or whole tone scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
If you're using a chromatic circle to transpose the names of all the chords in a piece, just make sure that you move each chord name by the same amount and in the same direction. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
Figure 4.48: Because all the intervals are the same, it doesn't matter much where you begin a chromatic or whole tone scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
He swallowed hard, drew a breath and made another attempt, producing this time a roll call on a rising chromatic scale. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
Loudly, I defy all notes in a chromatic scale. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
Figure 4.8: All intervals in a chromatic scale are half steps. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
Use the chromatic circle to find the direction and number of half steps to get from your key to the other key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
A whole tone scale, a scale made only of whole steps, sounds very different from a chromatic scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
In both the chromatic and the whole tone scales, all the intervals are the same. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
Figure 6.2: You can continue this series of perfect fifths to get the rest of the notes of a chromatic scale; the series would continue F sharp, C sharp, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
Figure 4.47: The chromatic scale includes all the pitches normally found in Western music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
The Huygens brothers found a way to reduce chromatic aberration considerably by using a combination of two thin lenses in the eyepiece of a telescope, instead of one fat lens. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
It was a placid explosion of orange and red, a great chromatic symphony, a colour canvas of su­pernatural proportions, truly a splendid Pacific sunset, quite wasted on me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
If you travel toward the observer at almost the speed of light, you will become enveloped in an eerie chromatic radiance: your usually invisible infrared emission will be shifted to the shorter visible wavelengths. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
But the slight coolness and clarity of the playing also revealed Mahler’s intricate contrapuntal writing, the boldness of his chromatic harmonies. Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen Brings Mahler to Carnegie, Ever So Coolly 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z
But before it ends, the song pivots completely, turning to slow chromatic chords and suspended vocal harmonies — a brief moment of respite. Foo Fighters Begin a New Chapter, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z
Video images of cloud formations and gases were projected on scrims as the orchestra played Haydn’s grave music, surging slowly through passages of unmoored chromatic harmony. Review: A Dazzling ‘Creation’ Brings Light to Lincoln Center 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z
In this chromatic field, Tyson pierces through with an angular yet characteristically bluesy line, “We sing this song to abolish sorrow.” 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z
In its slow movement, for example, rapidly bowed, muted string figures were overlaid with shrill woodwind timbres, and within that high-contrast fabric a quiet, intensely chromatic piano line created an air of mystery. Music Review: When Soloists Don?t Necessarily Star 2011-04-15T23:01:47Z
Writing about the "deliberately sombre" colours of Nevermore, Gauguin observed that "sadness is my key", which will be news to anyone who associates him with chromatic heat and hedonism. Gauguin: Maker of Myth 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z
You may also be reminded of the infinitesimal chromatic gradations on a ring of paint-sample cards. Art Review: James Turrell Plays With Color at the Guggenheim 2013-06-20T23:01:56Z
That landscape was, of course, itself in flux, and the harp’s new chromatic flexibility allowed it to reflect those changes, as this enchanting recording shows. Classical Playlist: Holliger, Pieczonka, Sivan Magen and More 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z
Ideas that at first seem unconventional — polyphony, chromatic harmony, swing time — become conventions, only to be upended by unorthodox ideas of new kinds that then become orthodoxies themselves. Beethoven Was the Johnny Rotten of His Day 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z
For each segment — concentrating on one rodeo event, intercutting various competitors and performers — Mr. Stevens chose a strategy and stuck to it: a certain texture, a certain beat, perhaps with chromatic meanderings, perhaps not. Sufjan Stevens Brings the Rodeo to BAM 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z
There were hints of Rachmaninoff too, specifically the Third Piano Concerto, in the gently chromatic piano writing near the end of the piece. Music Review: Early Birthday Party for Philip Glass at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-01-30T23:10:35Z
In his score, Blanchard deftly blends elements of jazz, blues, hints of big band and gospel into a compositional voice dominated by lushly chromatic and modal harmonic writing, spiked with jagged rhythms and tart dissonance. Review: ‘Fire’ Brings a Black Composer to the Met, Finally 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z
It dissolved into the chromatic fillip that begins “Small Wonder,” an in-the-pocket workout from the new album. 2010-01-08T03:49:00Z
He refused to milk the melancholy of the sprawling 25th, maintaining an elegant restraint that coursed into the virtuosic combination of courtliness and dense, smoky chromatic fireworks in the late variations. Review: Dimming the Lights for Sensuously Flowing Bach 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z
In this powerful work he is an abstract Vincent van Gogh, sharing his soul through bright yet painful chromatic brilliance.• Van Gogh's true colours exposed – the week in art 2013-05-03T11:35:59Z
Each hauntingly lyrical painting by this New York–based Danish visionary begins as a mono­chromatic canvas. Bright Prospects: Kasper Sonne 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z
From gazing upon chromatic, steaming lakes to soaking in a thermal bath, Icelandic visits are enhanced by the country’s powerful natural forces. Hot times visiting Iceland’s geothermal sights 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z
This short song pushes chromatic harmony into fleeting moments of ambiguity. Music Review: Ian Bostridge and Thomas Ad?s at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-29T23:23:51Z
These artists’ photographs bear the unmistakable marks of McGinley’s early work: chromatic portraits of friends and lovers, with an energetic, spontaneous, and intimate—rather than objectifying—fixation on the human body. Ryan McGinley’s Exuberant Downtown, 1999–2003 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z
Mr. Trifonov brought striking clarity to the wandering lyrical lines that thread through the music and savored the pungent sonorities of dense, chromatic chords. Review: A Star Pianist Finally Lets Us See Him Sweat 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z
Ryland Angel, a countertenor, sang the chromatic vocal line with a focused emotional intensity that suited the text, a lament about weeping over the weight of one’s sins. Music Review: German Sounds Both Familiar and Not Quite So 2010-08-27T22:50:00Z
The ornamentation of melodic lines, for instance, needs to be updated from that typical in Handel’s time to the more chromatic kind fashionable in Mozart’s. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Joins Mostly Mozart 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z
One of the ones we use is one I created that’s a chromatic passage that goes upward. At Nationals Park in Washington, Van Hoose hits all the right notes 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z
Instead, they establish a chromatic scale of timbres that range from dry and tart over clean and zesty all the way to lustrous and singing. Music Review: The Emerson Quartet Plays the Mostly Mozart Festival 2013-08-21T21:27:12Z
Of all arts these are the closest: the 12-note scale is chromatic and with bent notes music, like colour, can produce any gradation you like. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z
Their influence is reflected in his poetic titles, chromatic harmonies and rippling patterns, like those in “The Fountain of Acqua Paola” from “Roman Sketches,” which also evokes pieces by Liszt and Ravel. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson Summons Stamina at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-12T22:56:52Z
Color is applicable to both, as is chromatic. Sound and color at Santa Monica Museum of Art 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z
Tunes such as “To Tide Us Over” and “Now Know” were presented like pop songs, but with complex, chromatic harmonies and convoluted melodies not easily accessed. Esperanza Spalding says goodbye to song-driven shows 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z
These pieces are among the best in the composer’s chamber music output, contrapuntally intricate and with daring chromatic touches. Sampling of C.P.E. Bach’s music at Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival
I also liked Gnesin’s “From Shelly,” another symphonic fragment, this one a curious blend of wayward lyricism, diffuse chromatic harmonic writing and evocations of Wagner. Two Russian Tours, One Led by Evgeny Kissin, the Other by the American Symphony Orchestra 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z
Gradually Mr. Payton introduced some close chromatic tensions, varying the angle and pressure with each pass. Music Review: Azar Lawrence Quintet at Jazz Standard - Review 2011-12-15T23:04:44Z
All 12 notes of the chromatic scale are heard, defying the traditional musical structure that would insist on a home key and a limited subset of harmonically related notes. Stravinsky and the modernism that still stirs 2013-01-03T07:30:01Z
The 20 paintings on fabric here by Claude Viallat, rigorously composed yet teeming with chromatic invention, may add up to the most significant postwar art history lesson in town this summer. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z
Slamming drumbeats and distortion-edged guitar riffs might promise basic punk, except that the melodies Ms. Burke sings are jaggedly chromatic. Review: Weaves Brings Sonic Slapstick in Shifting Tempos to the CMJ Music Marathon 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z
Ms. Röschmann’s voice was well served by the denser textures of the chromatic piano part. Review: Dorothea Röschmann and Mitsuko Uchida in Recital 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z
Mr. Hancock’s solo begins no less strikingly, with a chromatic jangle in 7/8 meter — not something you expect to hear from a jazz pianist in 1967 — followed by a shift into fast-lane swing. Music: Miles Davis Reissue, ?Live in Europe 1967? 2011-09-09T16:30:32Z
The New York Times’s chief classical critic Anthony Tommasini described “a compositional voice dominated by lushly chromatic and modal harmonic writing, spiked with jagged rhythms and tart dissonance.” Jazz and Opera Come Together in ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z
“A master of crisp lines and contrasting chromatic planes, Herrera creates symmetry, asymmetry and an infinite variety of movement, rhythm and spatial tension across the canvas.” Carmen Herrera, Cuban-born abstract artist, dies at 106 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z
In the first movement, the undulating chromatic scale that winds its way from the development section into the recap was like a serpent from hell, and the coda invoked Verdi at his darkest. Pianist András Schiff is note-perfect at Strathmore concert 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z
The chromatic density of Bartók’s work, he explains, demands perfection in performance. Violinist James Ehnes and SSO to join forces on Bartók 2014-03-06T20:16:36Z
Mr. Missoni once wrote, in an introduction to an exhibition of his tapestries, that he created a chromatic harmony by adding a third color to two clashing ones. Ottavio Missoni, Patriarch Who Made Zigzag High Fashion, Is Dead at 92 2013-05-09T14:10:07Z
The technique, also known as serialism, entails using all 12 notes of the Western chromatic scale in rigidly equal proportion throughout a composition. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z
The chromatic contrast between the inkiness of their cassocks and the room’s ascetic whiteness finds an echo in Rodrigues’s rigid dualism, a belief in absolutes that will be tested. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z
It was slightly smaller than one expected and also less vivid, despite the efforts of three separate cutters working on the stone over the last year to maximize its chromatic intensity. 2010-01-08T21:18:00Z
Yet as he told the audience on Friday, though the philosophy of the movement influenced him, he developed into a composer who creates sounds using traditional means and the standard 12 chromatic pitches. Music Review: Conjuring Up Wondrous Sounds 2010-11-21T22:44:00Z
But the heavy reverberations clouded the gently undulating textures and one chromatic modulation turned garish as neighboring keys clashed in space. Music Review: Metropolitan Opera Brass at St. John the Divine 2013-05-15T20:31:51Z
The army arrived under cloak of darkness, and the hour-plus combat that ensued unfolded with all the chromatic variety of a goth teenager’s wardrobe. Was ‘Game of Thrones’ Too Dark on Sunday? Yes and No 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z
That decision to pound home the work’s portentousness, exciting as it was, exacted a cost in subtler passages, like the rising and falling chromatic figures that follow soon after the introduction. Music Review: Mostly Mozart and Chamber Orchestra of Europe 2012-08-07T21:46:15Z
The finale includes a magnificent — and perilously chromatic — horn solo and a return of the vigorous, Stravinskian scoring of the first movement. Philharmonic to Present H. K. Gruber?s ?Frankenstein!!? 2011-12-04T04:23:05Z
With a soft approach, his opening, of upward chromatic scales passed around the orchestra, was a garden of strangely beautiful flowers in bloom. Review: An Audition Season Begins at the Philharmonic 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z
He sprinkled impressionistic clusters, high and translucent and then lower and more aggressive, cleared them away to ponder a melody, then let a dance-tinged pattern emerge and put it through dizzying chromatic transformations. Music Review: Chucho Valdés and Gonzalo Rubalcaba at Carnegie 2012-12-05T22:57:47Z
Above all he disdained serialism, a compositional technique most closely associated with Arnold Schoenberg, which requires the composer to use all 12 tones of the chromatic scale in rigidly equal measure. Benjamin Lees, Versatile Composer, Dies at 86 2010-06-04T05:51:00Z
Suddenly there are low tremolos indicating rumbling thunder, and ominous roiling chromatic riffs in the bass, like the brewing storm music near the end of Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z
The augmented reality video is impressive; Mr. Mandrill shows up on my phone’s screen in all his chromatic glory. App review: See Natural History skeletons before they were just bones 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z
Most of all, dahlias have colors that are as saturated and chromatic as they come. The autumnal annual named dahlia
A rhapsodic Air begins with an ominous piano solo, thickly chromatic and dissonant, roiled by heaving outbursts. America’s Quintessential Maverick Composer, at 100 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z
The objective was to enhance the chromatic richness of the frescoes while improving the overall quality of the light to better illuminate the frescoes on the sidewalls of the chapel. Seeing the Sistine Chapel in a New Light 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z
But except for one brief quotation, the music is Ms. Berkson’s, including a motet setting of Psalm 130, sung in unintelligible German, that skillfully weaves delicate counterpoint with dense chromatic harmonies. Music Review: ‘The Vienna Rite,’ by Judith Berkson, at Roulette 2012-11-05T19:43:03Z
Vocal lines, steeped in the pinched timbres of Chinese opera, take chromatic turns foreign to that tradition. Music Review: New Works Enliven Spoleto Festival USA 2012-06-04T22:14:32Z
The score surges with stretches of hyper-charged, densely chromatic, at times atonal Expressionistic music. Jack Beeson, Composer and Teacher, Dies at 88 2010-06-09T04:58:00Z
But he’s also drawn to chromatic tension and extended techniques: He often reached under the lid of the piano to rake his fingertips across the strings. Review: Jim Black Trio at Le Poisson Rouge 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z
The chromatic back and forth animated by the coral illuminates the issues of class, work and privilege inherent in the selection of paintings. 2010-01-08T06:23:00Z
Mr. Nasseri brought judicious elasticity to the phrasing and taut suspense to the chromatic progressions. Review: Pianist Soheil Nasseri Puts a New Touch on Classical Standards 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z
When the opening riff returns, it’s slower and warmer, proceeding through chromatic transformations that are sometimes queasily dissonant, sometimes hopeful. Minimalist Composer Julius Eastman, Dead for 26 Years, Crashes the Canon 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z
While Canto V opens in lush tonal harmony, the frequency of dissonance is heightened, until in the last four minutes, the violins soar together in an arching series of chromatic clusters. CD reviews: Late works by late composers Rautavaara, Henze 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z
And the song structures revel in thick chromatic chords and rising, uplifting key changes — especially “Blast Off,” the album’s finale, which dreamily, repeatedly ascends as Mars asks, “Can we take it higher?” Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak Revisit Vintage Luxury as Silk Sonic 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z
Still, Rachmaninoff’s mature voice already comes through in the chromatic richness of the harmonic writing, the abundant lyricism and the glowing orchestration. Review: Signs of Rebirth at New York City Opera 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z
First performed in 1924, the music shifts from passages of dense, chromatic intensity to bursts of pulsing burlesque energy. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z
But as the poem explores tangential ideas and metaphoric asides, Sorey’s score trends chromatic — while making use of Yarn/Wire’s facility with the experimental techniques that Greenberg mentioned in his email. High Schoolers Get In on an Avant-Garde Musician’s Latest Show 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z
Geoffrey Burleson played the second of the concert’s two sets and addressed Debussy peripherally at first, by way of six Saint-Saëns Études couched in rippling figures and chromatic harmonies that prefigure some of Debussy’s experiments. Music Review: Debussy 150 Series at 1 Liberty Plaza 2012-08-21T21:48:59Z
“It’s hard, it’s almost a crazy instrument to want to play,” Mr. Thielemans once told an interviewer about the chromatic harmonica. ‘Toots’ Thielemans, master of the jazz harmonica, dies at 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z
In many of his late pieces he explores radical chromatic harmony and dissonance, sometimes cutting loose almost completely from tonal moorings. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z
Other works, if less overtly painterly, evoked their time and place perfectly, with plaintive popular melodies shrouded in dense, virtuosic and often chromatic variations by some of the era’s best composers. Music Review: Kenneth Weiss in Music Before 1800 - Review 2011-09-26T21:58:02Z
With that, they were off into a chromatic wilderness. Review: Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock on Two Grand Pianos at Carnegie Hall 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z
Like all of Mr. Fincher’s features “The Social Network” is beautiful, its subdued, dark palette punctuated by a dazzlingly bright rowing race that puts the differences between the main adversaries into symbolic and chromatic relief. Film: The Revolution Is Being Shot on Digital Video 2010-12-17T23:34:06Z
Between the Brahms works he inserts elliptical movements from Schoenberg’s Six Short Piano Pieces, and it is amazing how easily Brahms’s chromatic harmonies mingle with Schoenberg’s atonal writing. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z
It relates to the most widely shared experience in the world, the chromatic imprint of clear skies and radiant sun rises. La vie en rose: how pink came back into fashion 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z
Its mysterious chromatic vistas surface through a dark-hued, smoky string section, which swells to a passionate fervor before fading away. Music Review: On a Cold Night, Bending the Rules of Harmony 2010-12-14T06:15:15Z
Schubert made relentless demands on the pianist, with repeated chromatic scalar passages up and down the keyboard. Chamber-music fest opens on exciting note 2012-02-03T19:16:04Z
Harmonies meander through chromatic ambiguities; low-fi moments dovetail into studio opulence, as loops and echoes enfold her voice like electronic ghosts. L’Rain’s Songs Hold Ghosts, Demons and Healing 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z
Audacious zigzag-pattern floors and striped pantry walls follow chromatic suit, as does crockery monogrammed with his nickname, Laps. Fiat Heir Lapo Elkann Opens The Doors To His Provocative Milan Penthouse 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z
His performance of the 15th variation, a quietly chromatic, beautifully inflected canon, was the high point of a well-thought-out, confidently played offering that reflected both technical muscle and emotional sensitivity. Sam Post’s confident — yet equally sensitive — take on Bach’s ‘Goldberg’ 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z
No "Unforgettable" viewer would find fault with the chromatic luster of her russet tresses. Poppy Montgomery is 'Unforgettable' solving crimes 2012-04-30T11:54:15Z
In “The Passions,” an art song about a moment of physical intimacy, he puts the emotional weight on a single word, “compassion,” drawing it out within a fog of chromatic unease. New Albums From Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, Sleaford Mods and Owen Pallett 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z
Pedja Muzijevic, on harpsichord, provided a crisp backbone for all the concertos and in the Fifth — an early premonition of a keyboard concerto — he contributed an exhilarating, wildly chromatic cadenza. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Plays Bach 2013-12-17T22:02:05Z
His music here, which embraces a total chromatic idiom, is skillfully crafted and impresses as the product of a man with a good ear. Review: The New Opera 'Metanoia' Goes On, but Without Its Provocateur 2010-10-12T13:30:00Z
Their starkly contrasting moods are conveyed with chromatic instrumental writing and Sprechstimme vocal lines, which were effectively delivered by Ms. Shelton. Music Review: Rhythms Rise Up From the Pampas 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z
Strauss, the subject of Ross's first chapter, links the chromatic opulence of late Romanticism with the fractured soundworlds of modernity; and Zarathustra, pivoting between two keys a semitone apart, presages a century of harmonic reinvention. LPO/Jurowski – review 2013-01-20T16:36:36Z
Still, despite some scrappy moments, the ensemble conveyed the weighty depths of this moody music, suffused with late-Romantic richness and chromatic ambiguities. Review: Ensemble LPR Plays, With Central Park as an Inspiration 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z
This unforced minimalism only makes the bold strokes more pronounced: a surprising superimposition, say, or the chromatic jolt of the red car in snow. ‘Drive My Car’ Review: A Director Takes Your Heart for a Spin 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z
And Mr. Rattle laid out the threads of chromatic counterpoint in an organic, glowing and, when appropriate, gnashing account of the Adagio. Music Review: Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-26T21:18:46Z
It slows us down to experience her spatial and chromatic daring. 11 Galleries to Visit Now on the Upper East Side and in Harlem 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z
The second movement is thick with hazy, chromatic harmonies and a piano melody that evolves in spiraling fragments. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Carnegie Hall 2010-04-14T21:59:00Z
It is to Siegfried’s Funeral Music that “Funeral Song” audibly refers, with those guttural utterances of the cellos and basses, first creeping up by chromatic steps and then shuffling back down. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z
When she tried to find a publisher for her song “Sympathy,” set to a Dunbar poem that later inspired Maya Angelou, one told her it was just a little bit too chromatic. Welcoming a Black Female Composer Into the Canon. Finally. 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z
The thundering weight of the bass line not only conjured the illusion of the organ's pedal notes, but resonated right up through the instrument to maximise the impact of the chromatic harmony. Stephen Hough 2010-06-02T21:31:00Z
The greater portion of the song involved a chromatic swarm of notes, like what the great Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba was doing at her age. 2010-01-30T05:29:00Z
Goodman would feature Thielemans at least once a night on harmonica; indeed, one of Goodman’s live radio broadcasts from that tour was released in 2006, featuring Thielemans playing chromatic harmonica on his ‘Stardust’ arrangement. Toots Thielemans: A harmonica titan looks back on a stellar career 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z
Instead of using the 12-note chromatic scale, he worked with a 43-note system, derived from overtones, and he created a small orchestra’s worth of odd instruments to help him produce the sounds he envisioned. Reviving a Harry Partch Work With Hubcaps and Wine Bottles 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z
“As in his instrumental works, his language here is thickly chromatic with whiffs of serial techniques,” Anthony Tommasini wrote in The Times of the 1997 premiere at the Santa Fe Opera. Peter Lieberson, Composer Inspired by Buddhism, Dies at 64 2011-04-23T23:48:51Z
Some of the featured composers, like Mr. Carter, were partial to the 12-tone method — a system for atonal music invented by Schoenberg in the 1920s involving all 12 pitches of the chromatic scale. Tanglewood’s Contemporary Music Fest Milks Many Sources 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z
But layers of glitter, whitish stains and their exact siting amid the floral light and shadow give each a subtly different chromatic effect. Ebony G. Patterson Brings a Crowd to the New York Botanical Garden 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z
Each song slowly emerged out of a rumbling chromatic dissonance: Billy Strayhorn’s “Chelsea Bridge,” Mr. Shorter’s “Nefertiti,” the songbook standard “Body and Soul.” Vijay Iyer and Mark Turner Help Open the Met Breuer 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z
Though his music is chromatic and often harmonically hazy — the “Cowley Meditation,” with its shifting tonality, was evocative and mysterious — it rarely strays into the thornier realms of contemporary language. Music Review: An Extravagant Farewell to Summer 2010-09-03T22:47:00Z
A melodic shape emerged, and bass and drums hit a single, sudden downbeat — thump! — as Mr. Glasper kept extemporizing with chromatic flair. Review: The Robert Glasper Trio Presents Moody Covers at the Village Vanguard 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z
Ethel opened its set with an energetic rendering of Terry Riley’s insistent, invitingly chromatic “Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector.” Music Review: Spotlight on San Francisco, and the New 2011-04-13T22:51:31Z
Wagner was represented by two of his "Wesendonck-Lieder," whose chromatic harmonies hint strongly at "Tristan." Nina Stemme ignites Houston's 'Tristan' 2013-04-28T15:11:09Z
The Warlpiri people of northern Australia, it’s argued, have no words for colors at all, but instead describe chromatic phenomena within a multidimensional space of texture, iridescence or size. Seeing Color: A Matter of Nature, or Culture? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z
“Ancestral Duckets” is a sly waltz that roams purposefully through chromatic chord changes and sprouts a multitude of Muldrow’s vocals: harmonizing, scatting, riffing, taking over the melody and then playfully sailing above it. Blackpink and Selena Gomez’s Summery Treat, and 11 More New Songs 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z
Textures are rich. with Bruckner’s chromatic harmonies handed out like high-calorie treats. Bruckner as a holiday treat? The L.A. Phil thinks so 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z
She chose chromatic representation and never looked back, but she didn’t give up her commitment to expressive paint either. The Many Styles of Emma Amos, and Her Drive to Get Free 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z
His own “Variations Fantômes” inhabited a similarly dreamy and achingly chromatic world filled with liquid chords and light trembling ornaments. Review: Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula Displays Both Delicate and Robust Tones 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z
Nearby a small monitor flashes and scrolls horizontal bands of intense color, from thick to thin to static, recalling Joan Jonas’s early experiments with vertical roll and Paul Sharits’s intensely chromatic flicker films. Art Review: A Muse in the Machine: Click. Create. 2011-05-26T14:55:57Z
Clutching four mallets, he moved his hands in tight arcs, sketching a series of chromatic scribbles. Music Review | Chris Dingman: Vibraphonist Dazzles, but Without Fanfare 2010-03-19T21:36:00Z
Their songs hold chromatic twists and wry wordplay, packed into smiley three-minute bundles. Pop Music Gifts, All Bundled Up 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z
“Her technical skill alone is immense; in the completeness of her chromatic scale she is, probably, without a rival,” said an article published in Fraser’s Magazine, a London journal, in 1848. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z
He looks as stylish as his music, irregular but intentional: Nappa says he picks his clothes to correspond to the chromatic “vibrations” of each day of the week, a practice with roots in Eastern religions. NappyNappa won’t let the noise of the world drown him out 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z
Indeed, most of the works in this selection are pastels, often rendered in a narrow chromatic range in the quest for what the artist calls “color vibration.” In the galleries: Moving toward the transcendental 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z
Bach's chromatic harmonies, so prickly when heard on a delicately plucked string, became monumental and modern. Originality enlivens the birthday party for Hurricane Mama 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z
Where some listeners faulted him for playing out of tune, others praised him for exploiting a chromatic range far greater than the paltry 12 notes the Western musical scale offers. Von Freeman, Fiery Tenor Saxophonist, Dies at 88 2012-08-19T05:50:05Z
“Heart’s Desire” is outfitted with a gorgeous chromatic melody by Mr. Broadbent, whose pianistic lyricism is of the Bill Evans school, and his accompaniments showered Ms. Raney with rainbows. Music Review: Sue Raney at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-11-14T01:00:46Z
And Expressionist chromatic harmony was not for him: he cared too much about keeping chords, however thick, lucid and penetrating. music: Passion, Not Hyperbole, in Frank Martin?s ?Golgotha? 2010-07-16T23:38:00Z
The crisp interior rectangle is an optical illusion, though, formed by chromatic juxtapositions and flat brushwork carefully laid down. Around the Galleries: Matt Wedel's 'Peaceable Fruit' ceramics have a hint of fiery apocalypse 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z
When he presents the theme, at the beginning of the movement, he presents it with a descending, chromatic bass line. The Music of More: A Young Pianist Plays a Modern Master 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z
The language is essentially tonal, with lush, thick chromatic harmony and more austere modal passages that evoke the heritage of sacred music. Music Review: Braunfels’s ‘Jeanne d’Arc’ Plays at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-02T21:51:38Z
The opening Prélude is based on a dark-hued chromatic theme with shifting dynamic contrasts. 2010-01-11T07:05:00Z
You barely hear the orchestra, it’s quite low, and the yearning motive is so chromatic. Nina Stemme on a Love and Loss in ‘Tristan und Isolde’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z
What he made from them was a hybrid of chromatic brilliance and dimensional complexity, work that was not quite painting, not quite sculpture and — this was the really radical part — not necessarily permanent. ‘Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,’ a Victory Lap at MoMA 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z
The defendants respond by positing that “the descending chromatic bass line is a centuries-old, common musical element not entitled to protection.” The Unoriginal Originality of Led Zeppelin 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z
Beach’s warm, thickly chromatic, intensely elegant single-movement quartet — which incorporates, after the model of Dvorak, the Native American melodies “Summer Song,” “Playing at Ball” and “Ititaujang’s Song” — looks both backward and forward. Broadway Meets the Avant-Garde in a Juilliard Music Festival 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z
She has taken a radically new direction in this body of work: painting on significantly larger canvasses; using a more vibrant, chromatic palette; and stepping into mythological terrain. A Radical Artist Takes a Startling Turn Toward Love 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z
The melodies to songs like “The Caves of Altamira” and “Green Earrings” are chromatic and jumpy — so tricky that onstage Mr. Fagen sometimes strained to maneuver through them. Music Review: Steely Dan at the Beacon Theater - Review 2011-09-21T23:01:55Z
As his left hand crashed surprising chords at unexpected moments into the bass, his right hand delivered mercurial, chromatic, exhilaratingly long and vehement high-register runs with a seemingly inexhaustible inventiveness. The Best Jazz Reissues of 2014 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z
Taurus’s 1968 song “Spirit” includes an acoustic passage with an arpeggiated chord progression and a descending chromatic bass line that resembles the pastoral introduction to “Stairway.” Stolen or Original? Hear Songs From 7 Landmark Copyright Cases. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z
Musically, the final pieces are the most interesting, darkened with astringent chromatic harmonies. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Take On Travel and Folk 2014-04-28T20:16:46Z
The use of oil combined with tempera creates a stunning chromatic effect. In Transit Blog: Two Masters Explored in Roman Show 2011-10-30T10:00:31Z
“There was this highly chromatic post-bop; then music that combined elements of jazz and contemporary classical; and jazz combined with world music.” A New Focus on Eric Dolphy, in Washington and Montclair 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z
The Venusberg Music, more explicit than anything in Tristan, was composed using the latter's revolutionary and often overwhelming chromatic language. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z
And the relatively low resolution of the screenshots produces strange chromatic effects when blown up to gallery scale. Wade Guyton Packs Information in ‘The New York Times Paintings’ 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z
But Mr. Andriessen’s accent emerges quickly as the chord progression takes unexpected turns, the harmonies grow increasingly dense, and a singing, attractively chromatic melody is spun out over this thorny backdrop. Music Review: Louis Andriessen Series Continues at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-04-19T21:58:00Z
Amid Prince’s vocals, keyboard chords, distorted lead guitar and a chatty bass guitar, Davis wedged in his recognizable chromatic sprints and tangent harmonies. Prince’s Vault Reveals a Brilliant Trove With ‘Sign O’ the Times’ 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z
Schoenberg’s achingly chromatic Five Pieces for Orchestra, originally composed in 1909, represents a midway stage in weaning audiences from their dependence on melody. Review: Juilliard Orchestra Charts a Path to Babbitt at the Focus! Festival 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z
“This error was not harmless as it undercut testimony by Skidmore’s expert that Led Zeppelin copied a chromatic scale that had been used in an original manner,” Judge Paez said. Led Zeppelin ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Case Goes Back to Trial 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z
Though it forefronts Schuyler’s central question — Is the goal of racial progress the ennoblement of Blackness or its disappearance into a “chromatic democracy”? — its tone is jumpy and its storytelling lumpy. Review: In ‘Black No More,’ Race Is Skin Deep, but Racism Isn’t 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z
Also the way she’s thinking about melody is very original, with these wide leaps and chromatic dips. | Brad Mehldau: Pianists, Yes, but a Jazz Singer and Deep Metal, Too 2011-02-25T19:44:54Z
Thielemans, who is also an accomplished guitarist, holds a singular place in the jazz pantheon: He has dominated the chromatic harmonica in a way that is unimaginable for any other instrument. Toots Thielemans: A harmonica titan looks back on a stellar career 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z
His numerous works — a sizable body of skillfully fashioned, traditionally structured scores, written mostly in a pungently chromatic harmonic language alive with intricate contrapuntal writing — do not turn up today as often as they deserve. Music: William Schuman?s Legacy as Teacher and Composer 2010-03-31T21:13:00Z
The Adagio Molto begins with a few eerie, harmonically unstable measures, in keeping with the chromatic idiom often used in Baroque sacred music to represent Jesus’ suffering. Music Review: Sacred Vivaldi, Somber and Elegant 2011-04-22T21:57:36Z
Now 18, the Juilliard-trained Mr. Greenberg has undeniable technique, though the works of his that I know are written in a thickly chromatic, Neo-Romantic idiom that lacks profile. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z
All this chromatic activity is, of course, basically science — rods and cones doing their thing — as Albers knew and appreciated. Josef Albers’s Science and Soul of Seeing 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z
Featuring a tambourine, triangle, and tam-tam, the suite’s second movement attempted to capture the vitality of black vernacular dance with syncopation, unusual chromatic lines and colorful effects in the strings. Did Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony Transform American Music? 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z
A pensive, chromatic unaccompanied violin melody opened “Dyade,” a world premiere, with a shadowy bass line soon drifting in its wake. Music Review: Old Hand and a New One Crossing Paths in Harmony 2011-04-05T20:56:47Z
The chromatic shifts alone were something only a designer of Sander's authority would essay. On the Runway Blog: At Sander's Show, Watching a Master's Work 2012-06-23T15:03:40Z
Right away there was chromatic tension and plunging locomotion, with all three musicians feeding the boiler. Music Review: Enrico Pieranunzi Trio at Village Vanguard 2012-03-28T21:59:28Z
Weill’s score is raucously populist; Britten’s is a complex, chromatic hothouse flower. Music Review: Britten’s ‘Rape of Lucretia,’ Presented by Mannes Opera 2013-05-12T21:58:05Z
He swerved between hummable melody and chromatic barrage, not striving for the toe-tapping immediacy of Brecht’s best remembered musical collaborator, Kurt Weill. A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z
The concerto seems an attempt to balance the advanced chromatic language of Wagner with Brahms’s feeling for classical structure. Review: Max Reger, an Orphan-Composer Adopted for a Night 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z
But it was Mr. Thielemans’s inimitable technique and distinctive sound on the chromatic harmonica, an instrument that he single-handedly proved could hold its own in the jazz repertory, for which he will be remembered. ‘Toots’ Thielemans, master of the jazz harmonica, dies at 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z
In the devilishly fast Scherzo, for example, she dazzled with transparent, perfectly articulated finger work, flying upward through chromatic scales as light as a feather. Review | Czech piano trio makes Washington debut 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z
Barocci was a master of colour, especially gold, grey and rose, getting the chromatic key right every time. Barocci: Brilliance and Grace – review 2013-03-03T00:05:53Z
The piano parts, not surprisingly for this composer, are often elaborate, with daring chromatic harmonies and wondrous colorings. Two Singers Reveal the Core of Art Song, on Stages Big and Small 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z
Twelve-tone music, which differs from traditional tonality by using all 12 tones of the chromatic scale, is a “scary concept,” he said, but “not that forbidding.” Music Review: New York Philharmonic and Emanuel Ax Play Schoenberg 2012-10-05T23:16:56Z
The players savored the chromatic lushness of the Wagner before making a brash and brassy romp of the Daugherty. Civic Orchestra, Chicago Youth Symphony have the 'Rite' stuff 2011-06-01T14:55:54Z
But once they lure you in, they leave you alone to explore their chromatic, spatial and psychological complexities. A Final Rhapsody in Blue From Matthew Wong 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z
Even more surprising was that Thielemans could make the chromatic harmonica work as a bebop instrument. Toots Thielemans: A harmonica titan looks back on a stellar career 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z
He took his time reaching “Wichita Lineman,” via an abstract rumination perhaps distantly related to some of the song’s chromatic turns. Music Review: Alternative Guitar Festival at Rockwood Music Hall - Review 2012-01-15T23:43:32Z
At the same time, there are soaring, chromatic moments of full-bodied sound — a reminder that Melartin’s teacher in Vienna, Robert Fuchs, also taught Mahler, Sibelius and Korngold. CD reviews: Neglected Finn merits a closer listen 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z
In the piano passages thick, wayward chromatic chords are pierced with twisting inner voices, played here with a rich sound and suppleness by Mr. Höll. Music Review: Expectations Are Made to Be Upended 2011-01-12T22:00:01Z
Distinct textures do break the waves of sound: chromatic chattering in the strings, and dissonant humming in the choir — a nod, Frank notes, to Indigenous South American vocal music. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z
Yet much of the harmonic language sounds lushly chromatic, in an Expressionist vein. Review: Trinity Wall Street and Julian Wachner Play Carnegie Hall 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z
She easily navigated all the chromatic twists, leaps and sprints of “Moody’s Mood for Love.” Music Review: A Fount of Soul, Full Throttle and Unbowed 2011-07-28T21:30:10Z
Starting on a single, sustained tone low in the instrument’s range, the unaccompanied flute line gradually takes shape as an alluring, gently chromatic fantasy. Music Review | St. Luke?s Chamber Ensemble: A ?Magical History Tour? on 2 Routes 2010-03-04T22:57:00Z
But he carefully honors the melodies, even the trickier chromatic ones, and he fully inhabits the lyrics. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z
It’s a stark chromatic contrast that reinforces the story’s divide between the wild and tamed. Movie Review: ‘Deadfall’ Stars Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde 2012-12-07T00:31:59Z
All that sounds like one big ball and chain, but Ms. Mantler, singing and playing piano and chromatic harmonica, slips free. Gerald Albright and Karen Mantler Release Albums 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z
Russell Platt wrangled iconic poetry in “Two Whitman Panels” with stately decorum and unruly chromatic lines. Music in Review 2011-04-09T00:11:04Z
For one song the group brought up a Lebanese trumpeter, and soon the tambourines were propelling a chromatic, zigzagging melody that was headed away from home. Music Review: Globalfest at Webster Hall - Review 2012-01-09T23:18:48Z
The chromatic, crystalline elements in Tyler Mitchell’s new photographs — a tire swing, a white-picket fence, a bouquet of balloons — conjure images of innocence, safety and repose. Tyler Mitchell: From Glossy Magazines to a Mega Gallery 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z
It's not long before you begin to long for a chromatic inflection, for something to supply an expressive tweak, and to find an equivalent for the expressive power of the words. Prom 19: Sondheim at 80 2010-08-01T20:31:00Z
Mr. Bacharach’s songs, with their tricky, ever-changing time signatures and chromatic harmonies, are musically so rich that we tend to skim over the lyrics to savor the music better. Music Review: Anastasia Barzee at the Metropolitan Room 2013-04-23T20:56:38Z
Now matte black, the egg sculptures’ chromatic sins were hidden, leaving behind the pristine and almost Brancusi-like elegance of their form. The craft that consumed me 2012-08-10T14:59:00Z
And something suitably reflective by Arvo Part might have been dug up to accompany the vintage footage showing the chromatic sandstone caverns of Glen Canyon that have long since been inundated to create Lake Powell. Review: ‘The Colorado,’ a Music-Driven Eco-Documentary 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z
Sweet Core, Steely Edge To follow Billy Joel’s sober hymn, “And So It Goes” with the frantic chromatic babble of Clifford Brown and Jon Hendricks’s “Joy Spring” is quite a leap for any singer. Music Review: Karrin Allyson at Birdland 2012-06-10T21:49:33Z
Parker took the harmonic structures of popular songs, and of his own compositions, and complexified them, extending the range of improvisations into exotically chromatic realms. Ornette Coleman’s Revolution 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z
The strings' first entry consists of a rhythmic octave leap followed by four descending chromatic notes. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z
In the second one, “The Last Spring,” every twist in the beguiling melody, at once poignant and consoling, is cushioned with Grieg’s plaintive chromatic harmonies. Malmo Symphony Plays Grieg ? Review 2012-01-13T16:26:56Z
But Harrison was fascinated by 12-tone music, with its systematic ordering of all 12 notes of the chromatic scale into tone rows. America’s Quintessential Maverick Composer, at 100 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z
But the achingly dense chromatic harmonies of the slow movement were rendered with loving care by the Accademia players, a reminder of the consistent high standards of this valuable ensemble. Review: A Perfectly Acceptable Slice of Bach 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z
These pieces are bracing, argumentative and engineered to show the range of the group members: fulminous, intense collective improvisation; rapid, chromatic steeplechases; research into long tones and textures. New Music From the Rotem Sivan Trio and Anna Webber 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z
Adams meant that the full range of chromatic notes is relatively easy to produce on the modern clarinet and that what distinguishes an excellent clarinetist is the beauty of tone produced. Young French clarinetist in fine form in D.C. debut 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z
Mr. Sasamoto’s line took on the chromatic trappings of modern flute writing, and Ms. Kibbey’s moved from chords to solo figures that evoke the plucked sounds of the Japanese koto. Music Review | Music From Japan: Interplay of Antiquity With Some Modernity 2010-02-22T08:25:00Z
The leap, prefaced by bounding woodwind, juts impertinently upwards, while the chromatic descent, thanks to the addition of an extra note, has mutated into a yielding moan. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z
They combine the scale of sculpture and chromatic richness of painting. Sterling Ruby Pipes Down, a Bit 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z
And Mr. Muzijevic played with subtle beauty, allowing the piercing dissonances in Schumann’s chromatic harmonies to emerge without any sense of making points or underlining complexities. Music Review: Schumann?s Poetic Side, Poured Richly Into Songs 2010-03-01T22:28:00Z
“The Christmas Song” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” are chromatic late-night ballads. For New Holiday Albums, It Takes All Kinds 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z
Multitracked trumpets, flutes, keyboards and voices cascade across the drummer’s light, ever-shifting beat, building chromatic harmonies that continually elude resolution — a structure of endless longing. Chloë Tangles With Future, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z
But his distinctive sound on the chromatic harmonica was Mr. Thielemans’s primary claim to fame and, especially, to fortune. Toots Thielemans, Who Won Jazz Renown With the Harmonica, Dies at 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z
Elsewhere, Ms. Spalding created set pieces with lyrics alone, addressing class divisions in a purposefully bleary tune called “Tambien Detroit,” and relationship falsehoods in “Unconditional Love,” a winningly chromatic funk ballad. Review: Esperanza Spalding Recalls the Creativity of Youth in New Songs 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z
One of his final paintings, done on a beach in Wales during stormy weather in 1897, has sand of mauve breached by white waves, and almost recalls the chromatic experiments of Edvard Munch. Alfred Sisley: The Unheralded Impressionist 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z
Elaborating on this choice, Philip, from Brooklyn, commented that that unison phrase has all 12 chromatic pitches except G, the tonic of the key. Readers Name Some Favorite Musical Surprises of Their Own 2014-04-25T14:00:02Z
On the plus side, Stanton works chromatic wonders with Mars’ mandatory burnt-sienna landscape, and he frames shots with a nice notion of visual suspense, hinting at something foreboding just outside our line of vision. John Carter: Andrew Stanton's Martian Mission Impossible 2012-03-08T16:11:02Z
“Saxophone Song” rode a frenzied uptempo swing, with a breakdown for distorted violin and wordless vocals; “Suspended in Gaffa,” originally a waltz girded in oompah, became a rush of metric shifts and chromatic frictions. Music Review: Tangled in a Dreamscape With Friends in Tow 2010-09-23T21:21:00Z
Mine, with two beds placed back-to-back and a circular mirror on the ceiling with a remote-controlled chromatic lighting system, was named after the Acis and Galatea myth, famous throughout the island. The Sights and Smells of Sicily’s Second City 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z
A result was the emergence of the exotic style that became known as Tutti Frutti, a richly chromatic blend of rubies, emeralds and sapphires. A Rare Gathering of Cartier's Best 2012-12-06T16:30:20Z
In his hands, a simple chromatic scale became funny, even delightful. Review: ICE Features Levy Lorenzo on Teacups and Rebekah Heller on Bassoon 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z
Collectively the group covers nearly four chromatic octaves, but a sequence of four consecutive notes requires four players working in tandem. | American Composers Orchestra: Louis Andriessen and Orchestra Underground at Zankel Hall 2010-04-11T21:04:00Z
The wistful, chromatic harmonies of “Important Things,” the gentle third movement, suggested more solemn youthful moments. Music Review: Young Hands Tackling Chopin?s Intimidating ?tudes 2011-03-09T22:47:17Z
Here again color is a mutable element; every object seems to have a chromatic mind of its own. Asia Week Art in Manhattan Galleries 2010-03-25T22:02:00Z
Gilman, the Tribune critic, once accused the symphony of “weeping maudlin chromatic tears like an impotent Tristan.” What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z
His use of thick chromatic harmonies is less dark and elusive, more ludic and radiant, than Wagner’s writing. Review: To a Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’ 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z
But there were also moments — a fleeting theme with a melancholy, chromatic turn in the finale, for one — that seemed to point toward Chopin. Music Review: Composers? Influences, Side by Side 2010-09-01T21:52:00Z
The gentle chromatic theme that unfolds in the piano contrasts with the strings playing in the highest register. Music Review: Lark Quartet Performs a Jennifer Higdon Work 2010-04-23T22:46:00Z
More striking than the table of numerals itself is the vibrant glow of its chromatic dissonance. TriBeCa, the New Art Stroll 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z
The final movements, vibrantly chromatic, inhabit an entirely different universe from the early ones, and they explore material that did not appear to be of concern to Mr. Glass in 1971. Into the Music: Tune-In Music Festival Celebrates Philip Glass 2012-02-19T03:43:19Z
Romaine hearts, purple carrots, radishes and orange segments provide the chromatic canvas upon which the pinkish sauce is drizzled. Welcoming Brighter Days on Yalda With Pomegranates 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z
His compositions are full of demanding, musicianly convolutions: leaping melodies, meter shifts, mutating chromatic harmonies and dissonances. Music Review: Michael Rother and Hermeto Pascoal at Damrosch Park 2010-08-08T22:13:00Z
Its biggest piece of stage business was the ceremonial proffering of a chromatic harmonica, on a table with a glittering tablecloth, partway through “Los Angeles, I’m Yours.” Music Review: For Decemberists, a Time to Shift Gears 2011-01-25T23:06:16Z
He loved to attend the Broadway shows his father was recording, then go home and refit the tunes with chromatic jazz chords. Peter Lieberson, Composer Inspired by Buddhism, Dies at 64 2011-04-23T23:48:51Z
On sheets behind the Hahn Hall stage, chromatic projected videos of players hanging out on the balcony, eating popcorn or juggling oranges. Evening of tangerine dreams as wild Up makes its Santa Barbara debut 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z
Written in a late Romantic, chromatic idiom, Respighi’s sonata shows the influence of Brahms, Debussy and Franck; but the aimless piece lacks the cohesion and immediate appeal of his colorful tone poems. Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang Play Brahms and Respighi 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z
In the chromatic haze, Solange ponders questions and considers life lessons in a few ambiguous words. Solange Defies Pop Expectations on ‘When I Get Home’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z
It had a descending and ascending chromatic line with a meaty tone and a certain swagger, an approach that would spread through funk, new wave, electro, synth-pop and countless other iterations. Bernie Worrell, Whose Keyboards Left an Imprint on Funk and Hip-Hop, Dies at 72 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z
The quartet’s palette ranged from the subtle and creepy, as in the insectoid chromatic stirrings of the opening, to grunge-band grit. Review: A Quartet With Sunny Energy and Grunge-Band Grit 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z
Museum conservator Joseph Fronek said that storage probably helped preserve the chromatic brilliance of otherwise fugitive colors, such as the Spaniard's red velvet sleeve, painted in layered glazes. LACMA purchases long-lost masterpiece, once kept under a couch 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z
There's plenty to enjoy in here - not least a break from the chromatic cacophony of the rest of the show. RA's 'sprawling' Summer Exhibition 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z
The sublime 25th Variation, a slow, achingly lyrical rumination with passages that explore bold realms of chromatic harmony, invites a performer to play with brooding expressivity. Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z
The performers — a coterie of similarly minded musicians — didn’t abandon their Brazilian birthright: the trove of regional rhythms, the sinuous chromatic harmonies, the appreciation of poetic imagery and wordplay, the long-lined melodies. Music Review: ‘Brazilian Explorative Music,’ a Concert of Experimentation 2014-01-16T23:21:55Z
The 12 notes of the chromatic scale will be in the positions normally filled by the hour numerals. Diverse Voices to Start Telling Time in Birmingham, England 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z
Special commendation goes to the always polished solos from the muted trumpets, the groans of the contraforte and other low reeds, and the sickening chromatic slides of the trombones. Andrew Litton, conducting NSO, does justice to Russian program 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z
But I’ve come to think about the music in this piece as an ‘energy map’: of different builds; densities; ebb and flow; tonal/chromatic; metal/wood; extended/traditional, etc. High Schoolers Get In on an Avant-Garde Musician’s Latest Show 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z
Subtle shifts in the artificial lighting inside the dome conspire with the changing natural light to create a dazzling chromatic show. Crystal Bridges, the Art Museum Walmart Money Built ? Review 2011-12-26T15:29:45Z
Nell Snaidas, the soprano, gave an emotionally charged reading of Scarlatti’s chromatic score, using carefully controlled dynamics and florid but thoughtfully applied ornamentation to evoke Orpheus’ desolation as it is transformed to determination. Music Review: The Link Between Love and Madness, Explored on a Small Stage 2011-01-04T01:15:03Z
As a young Californian composer, he questioned all assumptions about the great classical music heritage, concert rituals and contemporary compositional styles, including the very pitches of the standard chromatic scale. Review: ‘Delusion of the Fury,’ With New Partch Instruments 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z
Cue Wagner, who developed a language of complex chromatic harmony and elongated phrasing that was perfect for revealing intimate sentiment. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z
Like many of his later scores, it blends modernist and Romantic affinities with an expressively chromatic language. Music Review: When Youthful Ambition Was Restrained by Prudence 2011-03-28T22:21:23Z
Other musicians have their own favorite corners: a juicy chord here, an archaic lyric there, or a moment in which standard congregational hymns can be spiced up with a touch of chromatic alteration. ‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z
Judge Klausner also wrongly told jurors that copyright does not protect chromatic scales, arpeggios or short sequences of three notes, the Ninth Circuit panel found. Led Zeppelin ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Case Goes Back to Trial 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z
The symphonies combine seemingly disparate qualities of late Romantic fervor, rustic colors, folksy elements, advanced chromatic harmonic writing, mystical strangeness and spurts of wildness, all conveyed in Mr. Gilbert’s vivid readings. Classical Playlist: Carl Nielsen, Lou Harrison, Bach and More 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z
What is present is a heightened experience of an exquisitely considered painting, bursting with chromatic power. Art made during — and despite — the pandemic informs the Hammer's 'Made in L.A.' 2023 biennial 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z
Miyake’s “Monthly Colors” offered a balanced palette of natural hues ranging from soft to vibrant, providing a fresh chromatic offering each month. Fashion, star power and a martial aura fuse at Givenchy’s collection at Paris Fashion Week 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z
Plus, the sunlight caused a chromatic aberration that added a halo effect above the wings. Opinion | A terrible decision on AI-made images hurts creators 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z
The profound emotional bond between George and Dot, though stymied by an uncooperative plot, has the chance to find chromatic expression in their singing. A majestic 'Sunday in the Park With George' revival arrives at Pasadena Playhouse 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z
One common type of aberration is chromatic aberration, which is related to color. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z
The album was named “Mercury” after the reflectiveness and chromatic beauty of the element. Imagine Dragons hit the U.S. road, now mixing light and dark 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z
But this chromatic ordering rule still stays intact. The Lonely Work of Picking the Universe’s Best Astronomy Pictures 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z
The mathematical expression that gives the answer is called a chromatic polynomial. June Huh’s monochrome chess puzzle paved the way for chromatic geometry. 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z
Painting merged with sculpture in lush chromatic fields. Commentary: Why the late Sam Gilliam's inventive abstract drapes celebrated artistic difference 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z
The telescope does not suffer from chromatic aberration. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z
The crimson word printed over a field of bright green causes a jangling chromatic dynamism of opposites on the color wheel, creating a purely visual sense of alarm. Review: In a smashing new LACMA retrospective, Barbara Kruger probes the modern media maelstrom 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z
There’s also a lack of quality in other areas, including chromatic aberration from the plastic and glass lens that adds a neon green tinge to backlit details. Wyze Video Doorbell Pro review: A big doorbell camera with even bigger value 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z
More complex chromatic polynomials can be written for more complex geometric objects. June Huh’s monochrome chess puzzle paved the way for chromatic geometry. 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z
It seemed intended as much as anything to remind him of his chromatic status in the apartheid nation. The Time Archbishop Tutu Was Searched at the Airport 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z
This telescope forms an image in the same manner as the two-convex-lens telescope already discussed, but it does not suffer from chromatic aberrations. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z
There are a few details that came from the ‘cursed’ game phenomenon, like the chromatic aberration effect that glitches the screen a little bit when something spooky happens.” A new wave of lo-fi games is reshaping horror 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z
The chromatic aberration is visible in the distance, but it doesn’t impact utility. Wyze Video Doorbell Pro review: A big doorbell camera with even bigger value 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z
Using tools from his work with Dr. Hironaka, Dr. Huh proved Read’s conjecture, which described the mathematical properties of these chromatic polynomials. June Huh’s monochrome chess puzzle paved the way for chromatic geometry. 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z
The house lights dimmed, and the familiar descending chromatic chords of the “Phantom” theme surged from the orchestra pit. Broadway's 'Phantom of the Opera' plots a cautious return to the stage 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z
And that’s exactly what is basically decided here, that these two descending four-note chromatic lines over an A minor chord are the same. Good 4 who? How music copyright has gone too far 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z
A London journal in 1848 wrote: “Her technical skill alone is immense; in the completeness of her chromatic scale she is, probably, without a rival.” Why Aren’t the Vaccines Approved? 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z
Under the spell of chromatic conditioning, I began to accumulate pages and finish my projects. This Centuries-Old Trick Will Unlock Your Productivity 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z
For the matroids, there are another set of polynomials, which exhibit behavior similar to chromatic polynomials. June Huh’s monochrome chess puzzle paved the way for chromatic geometry. 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z
So while "The Revelations" contains aspects of genres like murder mystery, romance, and Lovecraftian horror, I was always trying to create chromatic variations that also broke free from them. Is there a scientific case for literature? A neuroscientist novelist argues yes 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z
He said he wanted to learn how to build larger forms with chromatic harmony; Lerdahl told him to return the next week having written something reflecting that. The Composer Tyshawn Sorey Enters a New Phase 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z
In saying they seek to look forward, both sides, it sometimes seems, are looking back — and past one another — with equal chromatic distortion in their rose-colored spectacles. The Brexit Fight, Through a Reporter’s Prism of a Changed Continent 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z
But like Brahms’ chromatic harmonies, nothing ever truly resolves. Please, can we all listen to some Brahms and learn to get along 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z
The two songs share similar chord progressions and a bass line that descends along a chromatic scale. ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Copyright Case Won’t Go to Supreme Court 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z
The buying public responded positively to these chromatic spectacles, somewhat to Redmond’s dismay. Review: Granville Redmond, deaf from age 2, became Charlie Chaplin's favorite painter 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z
The new filters include halftone, gradient map, chromatic aberration, glitch effects, and more. Procreate 5X adds new filters and a handy reference companion view 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z
It doesn’t take long for Mozart to use every note in the chromatic scale, and when he gets to the last one, a D-flat, he lets you know with great, unresolved emphasis. Commentary: The extraordinary consequence of Mozart's love letter between violin and viola 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z
Shades of orange provided a chromatic through-line though, seeming to pop up in collection after collection. The five biggest fall 2020 style trends we saw at New York Fashion Week 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z
At the 2016 trial, Led Zeppelin’s lawyers argued that what little the two songs had in common — similar chord progressions and a descending chromatic scale — had popped up in music for over 300 years. Original or Copied? ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Is Back in Court 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z
There they will be tested using a gas chromatic mass spectrometer — a machine that more commonly looks at chemical weapons and stardust. Day-Glo masterpieces are fading. A conservator and her team are racing to save them 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z
His stunning, chromatic work on the floor of the international airport was unveiled at a time when the building was an icon of modernity. Carlos Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan pioneer of kinetic art, dies at 95 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z
His stunning chromatic work on the floor of the international airport was unveiled at a time when the building was an icon of modernity. Carlos Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan pioneer of kinetic art who added color to L.A. streets, dies 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z
In a major breakthrough last year, researchers solved a problem called chromatic aberration. Tiny Lenses Will Enable Design of Miniature Optical Devices 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z
The show ends with a selection from the museum’s holdings of black-and-white prints, which, as you emerge from what amounts to a chromatic car wash, look glum. Garry Winogrand and Jeff Wall: Photography in Two Phases 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z
It occasionally looks like it should require wearing 3D glasses as the edges of the background look out of focus due to some artist trick with chromatic separation and a lack of motion blur. ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ 4K Ultra HD review 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z
Most of the record, particularly its drifty, despondent back half, discards the conventional rhythms of dance music, relying instead on a chromatic, arrhythmic synth-pop haze. Gesaffelstein’s Dance Music Punctures the Coachella Bubble 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z
One piece which particularly caught the audience’s fancy was a sequence of notes which appeared to be a chromatic scale, but which never appeared to increase in pitch. From the archive 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z
“But representation is not just about what constituents want. If it were, we’d see the same chromatic people running things over and over again.” In Palm Springs, the nation’s first all-LGBTQ city council tests the modern meaning of diversity 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z
Once you choose the effect, you pick a scale, like major, minor, blues, or chromatic, and then a musical key. An auto-tuned cat convinced me to download an audio processing app 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z
But what was shocking about Formenti’s performance was the extent to which he removed the chromatic sting of Froberger, a pianist normally celebrated for his ability to startle. Review: Marino Formenti and a startling piano recital to die for 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z
Speaking of color, a room in which many of Warhol’s multihued “Flowers” of the sixties adorn his chartreuse-and-cerise “Cow Wallpaper,” from the same period, is like a chromatic car wash. There’s Still No Escaping Andy Warhol 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z
A good deal of the piece consists of slowly ascending or descending chromatic scales, bolstered by thick, satisfying, bottom-heavy textures. Review: Christopher Rountree's wild Up debuts ornery new works in unconventional style - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z
These “chromatic aberrations” are smallest at the center of an image and larger toward its edges; when that pattern is broken, it suggests that parts of different photographs have been combined. In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing? 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z
Young’s computer program, which is preserved today on original eight-bit paper tape, created a responsive relationship between each note of the chromatic scale and each of the structure’s 1,494 light bulbs. Triforium Fridays offer trippy performances beneath L.A.'s strangest sculpture - Los Angeles Times
The first photo is a sea of chromatic noise, smudged up by noise reduction blur working overtime to produce a somewhat reasonable image. Google’s Night Sight for Pixel phones will amaze you 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z
Charcoal, pencil, printed texts, research binders, gelatin silver prints, newspaper ads and columns, Instamatic snapshots, photocopies, early videos — these and other materials dodge chromatic play. Review: The artwork of Adrian Piper makes a stern proclamation: 'Everything will be taken away' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z
Klausner also wrongly told jurors that copyright does not protect chromatic scales, arpeggios or short sequences of three notes, the 9th Circuit panel found. Led Zeppelin faces retrial in 'Stairway to Heaven' copyright lawsuit 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z
He had trained a neural network to spot chromatic aberrations and other signs of manipulation; the network produces “heat maps” highlighting the suspect areas of an image. In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing? 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z
“This error was not harmless as it undercut testimony by Skidmore’s expert that Led Zeppelin copied a chromatic scale that had been used in an original manner,” Paez said. Stairway to court: US judges order new Led Zeppelin plagiarism trial 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z
The court said the judge also erred by telling the jury that common musical elements, such as descending chromatic scales, arpeggios or short sequences of three notes, were not protected by copyright. Federal appeals court orders new trial over claim that Led Zeppelin stole 'Stairway to Heaven' - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z
In most every instance, black paper is the light-absorbent support for intense color, setting off chromatic displays like fireworks against a night sky. Review: The ghosts of Mexico's missing women animate Judithe Hernández’s brooding debut at the Museum of Latin American Art 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z
Aided by the revelations of Japanese prints, his ecstatic illuminations were the result of chromatic calculations and inspirations, many of which are documented in his letters. Treasures from the Color Archive 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z
Mostly absent are the liberating capacities of irrational chromatic reveries like hot pink, lime green or mauve. Review: Contemplating 'a Handful of Dust' at the California Museum of Photography 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z
Klausner also wrongly told jurors that copyright did not protect chromatic scales, arpeggios or short sequences of three notes, the ninth Circuit panel found. Stairway to court: US judges order new Led Zeppelin plagiarism trial 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z
In a gallery handout he’s likened the chromatic insouciance to Color Field painting, and indeed the organizational motif swallows any inclination to read the objects as narrative subject matter. Review: Random junk takes on weirdly personal meaning in this UC Riverside Arts show 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z
The high-resolution images have a lot of detail and very little chromatic aberration. Parrot Anafi drone review: flying high, but falling short 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z
But, in search of chromatic purity, Klein realized that even the purest pigments’ intensity dulled when combined with a binder such as oil, egg, or acrylic. Treasures from the Color Archive 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z
De Grey showed that the chromatic number of the plane must be at least five by finding a graph with unit-length edges, or a unit-distance graph, that requires five colors. A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Moser Spindle 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z
Grotjahn’s geometric abstractions employ disjointed vanishing points, the kind originally invented to create a convincing figurative illusion but here swallowing up visual energy as if some vividly chromatic black hole. MOCA still mum about curator's firing, despite crucial questions and too few answers 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z
Each floating, aluminum-mounted image presents as a luxurious chromatic soak, the figures mere densities within granular, atmospheric fields. In Catherine Wagner's luminous photographs, shadows of the great Giorgio Morandi 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z
Each edition is centered on some forgivingly abstract theme; recent volumes have investigated the chromatic possibilities of “disguise,” “time” and “muse,” for example. What Is the Perfect Color Worth? 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z
Likewise near the end, the band also ventured into an atmospheric, ballad-like instrumental intro employing a gently descending chromatic chord progression — but not that descending chromatic chord progression. Robert Plant and Sensational Space Shifters celebrate the now at Orpheum 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z
The school’s approach to music was hidebound, but Debussy wanted to reinvent it, creating shimmering, chromatic sound pictures based on unusual scales and chords. A biography of Debussy explores his genius and flaws 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z
The owners of EasyJet became caught up in a chromatic contretemps when they announced plans to enter the mobile phone market in 2004. Louboutin's blow in battle for red soles 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z
If the Gary, Ind., artist who records experimental beat music as Jlin were an architect, her chromatic structures would defy gravity and jut out in jagged angles that cut through the skyline. Times music writers pick their top albums of 2017 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z
Consider a chapter titled, “Personal Colors: What Do They Say About You?” which offers a kind of chromatic horoscope that locates truths not in the cosmos but in the spectrum of visible light. What Is the Perfect Color Worth? 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z
If the Gary, Ind., artist who records experimental beat music as Jlin were an architect, her chromatic structures would defy gravity, and jut out in jagged angles that cut through the skyline. Bedouine, Kehlani, the Regrettes, Yaeji and other 2017 recordings to revisit – LA Times 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z
Essentially, it’s a system that uses repeated patterns to ensure that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are given equal importance, thus avoiding the constraints of keys and traditional harmonies. What's the hot emerging musical genre of 2017? Welcome to serialism 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z
The soft napkins are a chromatic element "that you wouldn't necessarily expect" with these autumnal colors, she said. The secrets to a Thanksgiving #tablescape that will blow up on Instagram 2017-11-18T05:00:00Z
The first three symphonies, sprawling hyper-Romantic essays all, clearly chart a progression toward the wild chromatic mysticism of Scriabin's later symphonies. Moscow State Symphony goes big and bold in Northridge – LA Times 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z
He finds deep red a restful chromatic theme for his bedroom, hardly an orthodox choice. A home is transformed through vibrant patterns and colors — and a little trust 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z
All-Star Game to see this period in all its chromatic glory. Opinion | Why I Love Ugly Uniforms 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z
“It’s the drug,” I think, but it’s also the chromatic spectrum of the air pollutants, which can convert Mexico City into one of Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams. 'You must embrace the ugliness': the writing life in Mexico City 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z
The dance-rap subgenre called electro was primarily an East Coast movement to start, but few made tracks with as much chromatic luster as Los Angeles DJ, producer and vocalist the Egyptian Lover.  California Sounds: Ace reissues and unreleased work from the Bangles, the D.O.C., Breadwoman and others 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z
Other animals adopt a range of pigments, and even use optical effects such as iridescence to lend a chromatic gloss, yet the mammalian palette is mainly monochrome. Deciphering the genes that give mammals their stripes and patterns 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z
After the first chorus, he improvised over the song’s melody using bluesy and chromatic patterns. What’s ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ Without Garrison Keillor? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z
As a teenager, he bought his first chromatic harmonica. Jazz harmonica master Toots Thielemans dies at 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z
Musicologists summoned for the defence said the descending chromatic minor line progression shared by both songs had been a common musical device for centuries. Led Zeppelin cleared of stealing riff for Stairway to Heaven 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z
Led Zeppelin’s attorneys on Friday brought in music expert Lawrence Ferrara, who testified that the only similarity between Taurus and Stairway to Heaven was a “descending chromatic minor line progression”. Expert testifies Stairway to Heaven chord progression used 300 years ago 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z
Led Zeppelin's attorneys on Friday brought in music expert Lawrence Ferrara, who testified that the only similarity between "Taurus" and "Stairway to Heaven" was a "descending chromatic minor line progression." Jones testifies Page never mentioned Spirit in Led Zeppelin trial 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z
"They are a musical building block that no one can possibly own," Ferrara said of the chromatic lines.  Led Zeppelin's three surviving members briefly share courtroom at 'Stairway to Heaven' trial 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z
The instrument, unlike the more familiar blues harmonica, plays all 12 intervals of the chromatic octave. Jazz harmonica master Toots Thielemans dies at 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z
Page sharply disagreed, testifying, “No, I didn’t say that. I said they have similar descending chromatic lines.” Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page spars with attorney over 'Stairway' plagiarism allegations 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z
Mr Anderson also claimed that the part of the song at issue - a sequence of notes in the opening bars - was a "descending chromatic line…something that appears in all kinds of songs". Led Zeppelin appear in court over Stairway to Heaven dispute - BBC News 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z
"While it is true that a descending chromatic four-chord progression is a common convention that abounds in the music industry, the similarities here transcend this core structure," Judge Klausner ruled. Led Zeppelin stars face copyright trial - BBC News 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z
Ferrara acknowledged that "Taurus" and "Stairway" share the same downward progression of notes – referred to in court as a descending chromatic line – but said the sequence was a commonly deployed musical device. Led Zeppelin's three surviving members briefly share courtroom at 'Stairway to Heaven' trial 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z
“While it is true that a descending chromatic four-chord progression is a common convention that abounds in the music industry, the similarities here transcend this core structure,” Klausner wrote. Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven may be partly stolen, judge says 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z
"While it is true that a descending chromatic four-chord progression is a common convention that abounds in the music industry, the similarities here transcend this core structure," Klausner wrote. Led Zeppelin's Plant, Page to face 'Stairway to Heaven' trial 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z
In Google’s bundled Tilt Brush, for instance, players transform empty space into a montage of stirring chromatic light by swinging a virtual brush around. Review: The HTC Vive Fulfills Virtual Reality's Boldest Promises 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z
Tilt Brush lets you turn the air around you into a painterly montage of gorgeous chromatic light. These Are the 5 Best HTC Vive Launch Games 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z
In the Haydn, esoteric games were intercut with shivers of chromatic unease. Schubert’s Cry from the Beyond 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z
The chromatic subtleties contribute to an unsettled feeling. Why Is “Whistler’s Mother” So Iconic? 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z
It was a break from the delicate if chromatic work of building a story based on such a rich book property. Will 'Goosebumps' movie scare up the audience the popular books did? 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z
Using his signature style of modern chromatic palettes and layering texture and patterns, Andrews put together a design that he describes as, “basic themes layered in unique patterns, that aren’t too jarring.” Inside NBA All-Star Tyson Chandler's Lavish California Ranch Home 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z
Her knowledge encompasses both terminology and technique: she can demonstrate the way to produce vibrato, and when she improvises she includes arpeggios and chromatic runs. An Artist with Amnesia 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z
The web exploded with chromatic debate after various celebrities bruited their opinions on Twitter. Hues and cry 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z
Instruction by the Long Island Harmonica Club on how to play diatonic and chromatic harmonicas. Events on Long Island for Feb. 22-28, 2015 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z
The Long Island Harmonica Club will give instruction on how to play diatonic and chromatic harmonicas. Events on Long Island for Feb. 15-21, 2015 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z
In Color makes clear that resorting to chromatic film was never an after-thought for Davidson, nor was it an exceptional one-off reserved to Subway, a series he produced in the 1980s. Bruce Davidson's Ode to Color Photography 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z
In the living room, she pointed out a glass vitrine on top of the piano that held one of her father’s chromatic bass harmonicas. The Jenny Lewis Experience 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z
But the chromatic Houston rapper's antics extend further than a feature-film portrayal. Riff Raff the rapper: neon cornrows, emojis and home in Houston 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z
But then he evidently decided that was a concession too many to chromatic convention. The world's greatest living artist? 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z
Here’s a bright idea for traveling: Protect your passport with a colorful leather case–preferably one with enough inner pockets for credit cards, receipts and some equally chromatic currency. Colored Passport Cases with a First-Class Personality 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z
Nothing hides the fact that my workspace is a box covered in grayish-beige fabric whose hue is the chromatic equivalent of depression. headline
“The Truth Is a Hit” represents this triumph with a select few artifacts: Mr. Wonder’s chromatic harmonica, one of Diana Ross’s sequined dresses, the musicians’ chart for “You Can’t Hurry Love.” Museums Special Section: Motown’s Link to Civil Rights Movement on Display 2014-03-19T20:38:44Z
Mr. Cruz-Diez abandoned realism — and photography — by the end of the 1950s, embarking on the chromatic work that would gain him an international reputation. Lens Blog: Venezuela in Black-and-White 2014-03-07T10:00:29Z
Monet used pigments of matching luminance, or brightness, but different chromatic content, or hues, to represent the sun and the sky. Illusory Scenes Fade In and Out of View 2013-07-31T12:45:00.710Z
Every pop song, symphony, jingle, ditty, and aria in the Western World starts with just twelve notes in the chromatic scale. Creativity: How Constraints Drive Genius 2013-07-12T17:32:00Z
Midummer snow reveals its chromatic algal payload most readily on permanent snow fields in sunny, dry areas; rain tends to wash them away. Wonderful Things: Don't Eat the Pink Snow 2013-07-09T16:45:00.647Z
In some of the cases she read about, patients were given oral antibiotics to treat the chromatic skin bacteria. Well: Think Like a Doctor: The Blue Girl Solved! 2012-09-07T17:14:27Z
Ms. Rangel said that his later chromatic work displayed a photographer’s understanding of light, something that resonated in him when he read a paper by Edwin Land on the Polaroid process. Lens Blog: Venezuela in Black-and-White 2014-03-07T10:00:29Z
A baby grand piano, which has 88 keys, is tuned so that each octave is divided into twelve equal intervals, called half-steps, that form the 12-note chromatic scale underlying most of Western music. Birdsong Not Music, After All 2012-08-15T22:50:40Z
Form can exist independently of colour, but it never has had any important development without the chromatic adjunct. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z
The two "Hell motives" follow, the first a descending chromatic passage in the lower strings against roll of drums, the second given to bassoons and violas. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z
See Prism, Ð Achromatic telescope, or microscope, one in which the chromatic aberration is corrected, usually by means of a compound or achromatic object glass, and which gives images free from extraneous color. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z
At the beginning of a long chromatic scale select such fingers as will most naturally bring you to one of the stations just mentioned. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z
He analyzed recordings of 81 different birds, measuring the difference in frequency between each note and the next and looking for the same intervals used in diatonic, pentatonic, and chromatic scales. Birdsong Not Music, After All 2012-08-15T22:50:40Z
The early makers and users of telescopes in the latter part of the seventeenth century found that the troublesome effects of chromatic aberration could be much reduced by increasing the focal length of the objective. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z
Liszt's music is virile and homophonic, despite its chromatic complexities. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z
By this means, says Domnich, a diatonic and chromatic scale was obtained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z
The Playing of Double Thirds Please tell me something about the general practice of thirds, both diatonic and chromatic; also, about those in the first movement of the Grieg Concerto. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z
It is customary to show the complementary colours diagrammatically by what is known as the chromatic circle. Colour Measurement and Mixture 2012-02-27T03:00:13.987Z
This had the effect of neutralizing the chromatic effect, or color aberration, while at the same time only part of the refractive effect of the crown lens was destroyed. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z
Liszt, doubtless, was the first who introduced interlocking octaves instead of the chromatic scale at the close; Tausig followed his example. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z
I passed a one-story movie "palace," almost concealed behind chromatic advertising, and then the street twisted and I entered the "American quarter." Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z
As a rule, the twoPg 67 staffs are independent of each other in regard to accidental chromatic signs. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z
Such chromatic attributes were well in harmony with the intense stillness, broken only by the rustle now and then of whirring wings, or the sharp boom of the frightened bittern. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z
There the viewer is confronted with chromatic discs of all sizes. Hirst’s Druggy Spots Circle World in 11 Gagosian Shows: Review 2012-01-13T07:11:11Z
His octaves rage in chromatic and diatonic scales, in broken chords and arpeggios, up and down, hither and thither, like zigzag flashes of lightning. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z
It was fascinating merely to sit and watch that chromatic splash, the violent color, shift with the afternoon, to surrender the mind to its suggestions.... San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z
Fingering the Chromatic Scale Which fingering of the chromatic scale the is most conducive to speed and accuracy? Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z
The micro-gametes soon liberate themselves from the residual cytoplasm of the parent and swim away in search of a megagamete; each is a very slender, wavy filament, composed largely of chromatic substance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z
The autumn colouring here was a marvellous chromatic revel in dull golds and soft, subdued browns—the shedding tamaracks and the dying meadow grasses. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z
But who in the name of Apollo cares to hear chromatic tenths sliding pell-mell down-hill! Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z
Behind a screen on the veranda, Butterfly changes her chromatic kimona to one of white silk. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z
But the wheels of the vehicle were touched here and there with a tasteful dash of scarlet, as if in pretty chromatic tribute to the violent complexion of "dear Manhattan." An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z
Whenever I sang a trill they would poke each other in the ribs and giggle and, when there was a series of the chromatic trills, they nearly burst. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z
When a sentence comes to an end, there is a chromatic interval fortissimo, and the keynote generally concludes the tune. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z
After all thy tonsures and chorales, thy credos and sackcloth, wilt thou admit the Evil One in the guise of a melody, in whose chromatic intervals lie dimpled cheek and sunny tress! Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z
The music also tumbles down a tremendous chromatic; then it mounts again, changing from minor to major, which gives an effect of sudden peace. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z
What prima donna can run through the chromatic scale, or dally with difficult cadenzas, full of unique intervals, with more ease and precision than our charming Italian? The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z
The French claimed that she sang a scale of commas, that is, a note between each of our chromatic intervals. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z
Although many chromatic features are lost or subdued in preserved specimens, the patterns usually persist. Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca 2011-10-24T02:00:14.853Z
The first organ possessing keys to give the chromatic tones or semitones was built by a priest—Nicholas Faber by name—about 1360. The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University 2011-10-20T02:00:26.947Z
It has deep, rumbling tremolos and chilling chromatic crescendos, with here and there a moaning, wo-weighted theme that is piteous to hear. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z
"What we discovered is that the imperfections in the eye—things like astigmatism and chromatic aberration—actually help it to focus," Geisler explains. Deciphering the Brain's Autofocus Mechanism 2011-10-07T20:58:04Z
There was no inharmonious note: no thrilling short stories, no gaudy chromatic bindings, no slangy terse titles, no magazines or newspapers. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z
I never saw earth look more resplendent and chromatic than on the day when we entered that river with a bad name. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z
He was remarkable for his compositions for several choirs, writing frequently for 12 or 16 voices, and is important as an early experimenter in chromatic harmony. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z
With one last sweeping chromatic run, that rushes like the whistling wind from low D to high E, Ophelia kneels down with her flowers and thinks only of them. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z
It multiplied, stamping itself on a thousand walls, a chromatic procession tumbling into the distance. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z
So that, fused as he was with his work, he himself became that impossible thing, a chromatic voice, a multicoloured echo. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z
Along the way, Professor Cotel said he realized that Ketzel’s “exquisite atonal miniature” used only 10 pitches of the chromatic scale. City Room: A Musically Inclined Feline Mews Her Last 2011-07-18T21:39:57Z
Were men ever unanimous in their impressions—in their prepossessions, in the chromatic quality with which they steep every surrounding fact before they allow their critical faculties to be focussed upon it? Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z
After a short duet, which contains chromatic crescendos of blind fury for the tenor and insolent intervals for the baritone, they fight. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z
His eyes were equal, if not superior to the best prismatic binoculars ever turned out by Dollond or Zeiss, and Nature had apparently corrected them for chromatic and all other aberrations. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z
Any perfect lens of homogeneous material has at least two defects, known as spherical and chromatic aberration. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z
Or ran the chromatic scale up; For spring bade the sparrows pair, And the boys and girls gave guesses, And stalls in our street looked rare With bulrush and water-cresses. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z
The aplanatic triplets after Steinheil are remarkable for their large, flat field and excellent definition, free from chromatic aberration. Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus Catalogue No. 40 2011-04-14T02:00:42.743Z
The soprano voice rises upon G, A, B flat, B natural, and finally C, where all bonds seem loosed and the music rebounds in a rapid descending chromatic run. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z
Mersenne’s tablature for fingering the flute differs but little from those of Hotteterre-le-Romain24 and Eisel25 for the diatonic scale; he does not give the chromatic semitones and the flute had as yet no keys. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z
This defect of lenses is known as chromatic aberration and is quite obvious in the eye. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z
Again I reply to the triple winds running chromatic fifths of derision outside my window: Play louder. Sour Grapes A Book of Poems 2011-03-25T02:00:10.780Z
By this adjustment of the lenses of the condenser it is possible to do away with disturbing chromatic aberration. Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus Catalogue No. 40 2011-04-14T02:00:42.743Z
A well-poised soprano voice silenced the jungle choir by a brilliantly executed chromatic scale, as though the singer were trying her voice. The Taming of the Jungle 2011-03-23T02:00:16.887Z
The successive opening of the holes and keys on the flute produces the chromatic scale of the first or fundamental octave. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z
These details are not of interest here but it may be of interest to know that the phenomenon may be accounted for by the chromatic aberration in the eye. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z
By means of all the valves used at once, the B♭, an octave below the fundamental, can be reached, giving a compass of four octaves, with chromatic intervals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z
They differ in that the glasses made use of in the apochromatics and the manner in which they are combined permit a more perfect correction of chromatic aberration. Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus Catalogue No. 40 2011-04-14T02:00:42.743Z
"Don't speak of your mother as if she were a chromatic scale." Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z
The technical capabilities of the flute are practically unlimited to a good player who can obtain sustained notes diminuendo and crescendo, diatonic and chromatic scales and arpeggios both legato and staccato, leaps, turns, shakes, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z
It has been suggested that chromatic aberration in the eye-lens is a contributory cause, but this cannot be very important, for the illusion is visible with monochromatic light which eliminates chromatic aberration. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z
In the impetuosity of the chromatic progressions there was the mad pursuit of a happiness that eluded every grasp, although it shone ever so near, etc. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z
Modern paintings in wax, in their chromatic range and in their general effect, occupy a middle place between those executed in oil and in fresco. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z
Honesty, sobriety, chastity—these are virtues that he exalts, illustrating the horror of failing in them by means of innumerable chromatic anecdotes. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z
Lassus introduced such musical terms as Allegro and Adagio into music and brought chromatic elements into musical composition. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z
Perhaps chromatic aberration plays some part in making this effect so conspicuous. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z
In chromatic movements his modulation was as easy and sequent as in diatonic. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z
At times it seems to be endeavoring to run up a chromatic scale, so, in some districts, it is called the Scale Bird. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z
The compass, now chromatic throughout, varies according to the size of the instrument; the large cymbalom of the Hungarian gipsies has a range of four chromatic octaves, . Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z
These, however, since they share the general lengthening or shortening of wave-length through motion, are thereby shifted, to a certain definite extent, into visibility, and so produce accurate chromatic compensation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens"
An excellent demonstration of chromatic aberration in the eye is found by viewing fine detail through a purple filter. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z
Even in his chromatic passages his progressions are so smooth and easy that we are hardly conscious of them, however extreme they may be. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z
By varying the shape of the aperture we alter the form of the chromatic image. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc.
Now, as to this very nice chromatic measurement, by Willie, of the time consumed in his potations, while in the exercise of his calling, we have nothing to say. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7
The existence of chromatic vision in the lower forms is by no means as unquestionable as is assumed by popular thought. Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology
The combination is so designed that the spherical aberration of the one pair neutralises that of the other, and the result is or should be a lens corrected both for chromatic and spherical aberration. Optical Projection Part 1: Projection of Lantern Slides
Drawling hymns, psalms and canticles sung in the twelve different semi-tones of the chromatic scale; sermons full of theological subtleties, objections raised and explained away. Friend Mac Donald
He speaks, moreover, of "all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration." The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer
“The intonation . . . right through the chromatic compass of two octaves and one note is perfect, if you know how to manage the instrument; but its fingering is complicated, and requires study.” Springtime and Other Essays
We know nothing regarding chromatic vision in the horse, though we have often had trained horses which apparently possessed color discrimination. Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology
In order to obtain a complete chromatic scale throughout the compass, there must be, as on the slide-trombone, seven different positions or lengths of tubing available, each having its harmonic series. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis"
This practice consists of the simplest imaginable exercises—sustained scales, chromatic scales and trills. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists
The great merits of her voice lie in her staccato effects, chromatic runs,—which she gives with great purity,—and notes in altissimo. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday
Lind in one of her extemporaneous effusions, which was a long and extremely difficult elaborate chromatic exercise, which the celebrated cantatrice tried by way of taxing the powers of the somnambulist to the utmost. Trilbyana The Rise and Progress of a Popular Novel
According to this view the chromatic effects depend entirely upon atmospheric dispersion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus"
The outlines of things under these rainbow-tinted undulations produced the chromatic effects of optical glasses made too convex. Toilers of the Sea
There were at first only two pistons—for a whole tone and for a half tone—from which there naturally resulted gaps in the chromatic scale of the instrument. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume"
Staccato scales to "ah!" "oh!" and chromatic passages are introduced later. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c.
"I both compose and perform Sir: and though I say it, perhaps few even of the profession possess the contra-punto and the chromatic better." Physiology of The Opera
When it is examined by polarized light, chromatic phenomena similar to those noticed in crystals are observed. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse
In order to obtain a complete chromatic scale on the clarinet at least eighteen holes are required. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy"
Other meteorological phenomena caused by the diffraction of light include the anthelia, and the chromatic rings seen encircling shadows thrown on a bank of clouds, mist or fog. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume"
Then followed the chromatic scale, up and down. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c.
The chromatic, being subject to three such modifications, was regarded as particularly “coloured.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati"
The compass of the latter is given by him as the middle octave with chromatic intervals, the thirteenth note giving the octave of the first. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago"
The trees were red and yellow, the leaves firm, full-fleshed, as if the ebbing sap of summer still ran high in every fibre; their tint seemed no hectic dying taint, but some inherent chromatic richness. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories
The chromatic rings seen encircling the “spectre of the Brocken” are similarly explained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume"
Indeed, I couldn't let go the skein of the story for fear that I might fall off somewhere into a gloomy chasm and be devoured by chromatic wolves. Ivory Apes and Peacocks
From a supposed resemblance to the notes of the chromatic tetrachord, the term is applied to a succession of notes outside the diatonic scale, and marked by accidentals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati"
The contrafagotto has a complete chromatic compass, and it may therefore be played in any key. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention"
She perceived she had to live now in a chromatic range between rather underdone mutton and salmon. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
The intermediate notes completing the chromatic scale are obtained by means of three pistons which, on being depressed, open valves leading into supplementary wind-ways, which lengthen the original tube. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume"
The chromatic decoration of the Gothic palaces of Venice was of course founded on these two great principles, which prevailed constantly wherever the true chivalric and Gothic spirit possessed any influence. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3)
A “chromatic scale” is thus a series of semi-tones, and is commonly written with sharps in ascending and flats descending. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati"
My room is now done, and looks very gay, and chromatic with its blue walls and my coloured lines of books. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25)
Dvoř�k founds his harmony and modulations on the exceedingly chromatic scale of the Bohemians; and his piquant and dashing rhythms could come only from a nation which has no less than forty national dances. Music: An Art and a Language
Pelée; rode on creole ponies for days through scented chromatic forests with serrated heights frowning above them, and companioned by birds as vivid as the flowers and as silent. The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842
The Greeks and Romans are supposed to have understood chromatic scales of tints—animal, vegetable, and mineral—and except with the intention of producing startling effects, they did not mix them. Needlework As Art
To the Greeks chromatic music was sweet and plaintive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati"
A march, a waltz, a flute imitating the nightingale, the chromatic scale imitating the murmuring of the wind in the "Pastoral Symphony," may be taken as examples. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865
He was a daring innovator in modulations and in chromatic effect; and has, perhaps, added more genuinely new words to our vocabulary than any one since Wagner. Music: An Art and a Language
He stared into the tinny surface, and it seemed to take on new echoes of light and shade, following the chromatic changes of the music.... Melomaniacs
These exercises of the chromatic sense lead, in the case of the older children, to the development of the “color memory.” Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook
The color effect of the flowers is most delicate, and almost indescribable in ordinary chromatic terms. Getting Acquainted with the Trees
The dog of a celebrated singer whom I knew would moan bitterly, and give signs of violent suffering, the instant that his mistress chanted a chromatic gamut. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865
These are resolved by Franck in a manner remarkably free, and are often submitted to still further chromatic change. Music: An Art and a Language
In order to get around the obstacle formed by chromatic aberration it is necessary to make the object glass of a refractor consist of two lenses, each composed of a different kind of glass. Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers
The education of the chromatic sense becomes at this point of a child’s development the lever which enables him to become possessed of a firm, bold and beautiful handwriting. Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook
A concave mirror forms an image just as a lens does, but since it does so without refraction or transmission through any substance, there is no accompanying dispersion or chromatic aberration. Pioneers of Science
We have now reviewed the three chief defects of a lens—chromatic aberration, spherical aberration, and distortion—and have seen how they may be remedied. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use
It is also often highly embroidered with chromatic notes; the Hungarian scale, with two augmented intervals, being an intensification of our minor mode, e.g. Music: An Art and a Language
A refracting telescope which has been freed from the effects of chromatic aberration is called achromatic. Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers
A help to the continuation of the exercise is to be found in the further education of the chromatic sense, which the child acquires by painting the same designs in water-colors. Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook
The great obstacle which long stood in the way of the improvement of refractors was the defect known as "chromatic aberration." A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
The performer thus has seven possible fundamental notes, and several harmonics of each of these at his command; so that by a proper manipulation of the keys he can run up the chromatic scale. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use
This is one of Franck's most significant works, containing all his individual characteristics: melodic intensity, novel chromatic harmony and freedom of form combined with coherence. Music: An Art and a Language
The chromatic combination consists of a convex lens of crown backed by a concave, or plano-concave, lens of flint. Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers
Cloth, beveled edges, embossed in black and gold, with fine chromatic illustration mounted on cover. The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
The failure to repeat an accidental chromatic alteration in the same bar, the neglect of a tie, or an enharmonic interval with a tie are all common faults which mark careless performances. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression
His song was tender and bewitching in its effect, though it was really simple in construction, being merely nine notes, the first uttered twice, and the remaining eight in descending chromatic scale. A Bird-Lover in the West
This chromatic style had been anticipated by Chopin whose use of the harmonic series in those prismatic, spray-like groups of superadded tones is such a striking feature in his pianoforte works. Music: An Art and a Language
The perfect achromatism of a reflector is, of course, a great advantage, but the chromatic aberration of refractors is now so well corrected that their inferiority in that respect may be disregarded. Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers
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