chromatic
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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
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
L’Rain — the songwriter and performer Taja Cheek — ponders vengeful, destructive impulses in a near-lullaby that wanders through a chromatic chord progression, building ambivalence into the harmonies.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2023
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.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Vocabulary lists containing chromatic
Music - Middle School
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Music - High School
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