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

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 treed “Woodland Garden” to the west, with black tupelo and swamp white oaks, gives way to a “Perennial Meadow,” whose asters, purple beebalms and orange butterfly weed were chosen for their chromatic effect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 24, 2025

A whole tone scale, a scale made only of whole steps, sounds very different from a chromatic scale.

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