chromatic

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Both the original and chromatic versions of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” for example, are available on demand.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

Since it operated without the pouches of chromatic gel that Samaras had previously manipulated, he employed double exposures, colored lights, and paint to alter his images.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

This roughly mimics the developmental progression of chromatic enrichment as babies' eyesight matures over the first years of life.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2024

A Busoni aficionado, Levit brings tautness without rigidity to tame the sprawling, potentially meandering, Bach-loving “Fantasia Contrappuntistica,” before closing with Busoni’s “Nuit de Noël,” another chromatic fantasia, gently snowy.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2023

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.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones