chromatically
Americanadverb
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Music. in a way that relates to or makes use of a chromatic scale.
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in a way that relates to color.
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Venetian painting of the Renaissance is richly, radiantly colored, mainly because it is oil-based, unlike the Florentines’ water-based tempera, which yields a more chromatically subdued result.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Robert Bassler made groups of tall, chunky, chromatically luxurious cast-resin forms that bend light to visually bond together, like a space-age version of Constantin Brancusi’s “The Kiss.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024
During the night the air quality has chromatically shifted from an “unhealthy” red to a “very unhealthy” maroon.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2023
Mother and daughter have exhibited several times together, most recently in Los Angeles, where a critic’s remark that their work was “compositionally diametric yet chromatically in sync” captured the creative tension between them.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2020
The sixth or seventh degrees may be chromatically altered with only one note intervening.
From A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons by Friedrich Johann Lehmann
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