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CHROMATIC (Gr. xpcoµaruc6s, coloured, from xpwµa, colour)

CHROMATIC (Gr. xpcoµaruc6s, coloured, from xpwµa, See also:
COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)
colour) , a See also:

TERM

term meaning " coloured," chiefly used in See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, particularly in the expression " chromatic See also:

ABERRATION (Lat. ab, from or away, errare,, to wander)

aberration " or " See also:

dispersion " (see ABERRATION). In See also:

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MUSIC

music Xpa.waru o) µovoaai was one of three divisions—diatonic, chromatic and enharmonic—of the tetrachord. Like the Latin color, Xp6 a was often used of ornaments and embellishments, and particularly of the modification of the three genera of the tetrachord. The chromatic, being subject to three such modifications, was regarded as particularly " coloured." To the Greeks chromatic music was sweet and plaintive. From a supposed resemblance to the notes of the chromatic tetrachord, the term is applied to a See also:

SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession of notes outside the diatonic See also:

scale, and marked by accidentals. A " chromatic scale " is thus a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of semi-tones, and is commonly written with sharps in ascending and flats descending. The most correct method is to write such accidentals as do not involve a See also:

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change of See also:

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