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  • adjective Not chromatic.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ chromatic

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Examples

  • And there is an obvious mapping of the nonchromatic shades onto each other which satisfies the conditions for inversion.

    Inverted Qualia Byrne, Alex 2006

  • In his kiss-and-tell autobiography -- Ridin 'Raunchy on the Chitlin Circuit -- the legendary sideman Snooky Parnell remembers the young Greenspan as an extraordinarily imaginative soloist with a lustrous vibrato who introduced the concept of the inverted nonchromatic arpeggio to jazz music.

    unknown title 2009

  • In his kiss-and-tell autobiography -- Ridin 'Raunchy on the Chitlin Circuit -- the legendary sideman Snooky Parnell remembers the young Greenspan as an extraordinarily imaginative soloist with a lustrous vibrato who introduced the concept of the inverted nonchromatic arpeggio to jazz music.

    unknown title 2009

  • In his kiss-and-tell autobiography -- Ridin 'Raunchy on the Chitlin Circuit -- the legendary sideman Snooky Parnell remembers the young Greenspan as an extraordinarily imaginative soloist with a lustrous vibrato who introduced the concept of the inverted nonchromatic arpeggio to jazz music.

    unknown title 2009

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