chromatic
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Perhaps its brief but important ascending chromatic line was inspired by the signature one that ends Billy Strayhorn’s “Lush Life,” which closes this new release.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Behind the scenes, Moreno formulated her own Spanish-language takes on jazz, which listeners can hear in the 2006 funky, spy-like chromatic track “Escondidos” — which includes a kazoo solo in its outro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
While it enables useful wavelength-dependent effects, it also causes chromatic aberrations that become more severe as bandwidth increases.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2026
The music itself blends jazz, blues and gospel music, creating a compositional voice the New York Times described as "dominated by lushly chromatic and modal harmonic writing, spiked with jagged rhythms and tart dissonance."
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2024
Young instrumentalists are encouraged to practice playing the chromatic scale in order to ensure that they know the fingerings for all the notes.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Music - Middle School
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