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CHROMATIC (Gr. xpcoaruc6s, coloured, from xpwa, colour) , a term
aberration " or " dispersion " (seeABERRATION ). In Greek
three divisionsdiatonic, chromatic and enharmonicof 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
scale
scale
series of semi-tones, and is commonly written with sharps in ascending and flats descending. The mostcorrect method is to write such accidentals as do not involve a change
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