theory, a chromatic fourth, or passus duriusculus, is a melody or melodic fragment spanning a perfect fourth with all or almost all chromatic intervals...

Diatonic and chromatic are terms in music theory that are used to characterize scales. The terms are also applied to musical instruments, intervals, chords...

Chromaticism is a compositional technique interspersing the primary diatonic pitches and chords with other pitches of the chromatic scale. In simple terms...

included in many classical music textbooks to illustrate the descending chromatic fourth (passus duriusculus) in the ground bass. The conductor Leopold Stokowski...

minor scale, known as the Phrygian tetrachord, while the chromatic version, the chromatic fourth, has all semitones filled in. It is often used in music...

pitch-classes, typically of the twelve notes in musical set theory of the chromatic scale, though both larger and smaller sets are sometimes found. Tone rows...

Andalusian cadence. The descending tetrachord may fill a perfect fourth or a chromatic fourth. Chaconne Lament bass "Tetrachord", Britannica.com. v t e...

by chromatic lines moving in opposite directions. The progression has its origins in the various Baroque harmonizations of the descending chromatic fourth...

The chromatic circle is a clock diagram for displaying relationships among the equal-tempered pitch classes making up a given equal temperament tuning's...

fifths, or fourths, may be mapped from the chromatic scale by multiplication, and vice versa. To map between the circle of fifths and the chromatic scale (in...

Chromatics were an American electronic music band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2001. The band's final line-up consisted of Ruth Radelet (vocals, guitar...

be associated with counterpoint and chromaticism (for example, the chromatic fourth), and cites Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903, in D minor...

interval with a width of three whole tones (spanning six semitones in the chromatic scale), regardless of scale degrees. According to this definition, a diatonic...

In music theory, the chromatic hexachord is the hexachord consisting of a consecutive six-note segment of the chromatic scale. It is the first hexachord...

G♭ is a diminished fourth. However, they both span 4 semitones. If the instrument is tuned so that the 12 notes of the chromatic scale are equally spaced...

The chromatic harmonica is a type of harmonica that uses a button-activated sliding bar to redirect air from the hole in the mouthpiece to the selected...

and chromatic passages strongly outlining the interval of a fourth appear in the lamento genre, and often in passus duriusculus passages of chromatic descent...

encompassing two different staff positions, e.g. from C to D♭) and a chromatic semitone or augmented unison (an interval between two notes at the same...

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1998) Williams, Peter F. The chromatic fourth during four centuries of music. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York :...

types of undecimal major fourth. The term may also be applied to the "comma-deficient major fourth" (or "chromatic major fourth"), which is the ratio 25:18...

melodic lines, particularly the use of an inner voice descending a chromatic fourth. Although Joplin often used the technique to bring resolution to individual...

The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization is a 1953 jazz music theory book written by George Russell. The book is the founding text of the Lydian...

spirit to this melancholy dance-form. The movement is pervaded by the chromatic fourth—both falling and rising—which is associated with the lamento. It is...

concluding eight bar ritornello, its opening marked by the rising chromatic fourth figure in the bass line. Adagio in E-flat major Adagio BWV 1017/3 Problems...

final cadence. The accompaniment is built from the motif of a rising chromatic fourth heard first in the response to the first two notes of the cantus. The...

intervals include: Perfect fourth, the fourth spanning five semitones Diminished fourth, a perfect fourth narrowed by a chromatic semitone, thus spanning...

make this an unorthodox example of double-function form. It uses a Chromatic fourth motif in the chorale and the fugue. The prelude starts in B minor....

Credo, Mozart introduces the trombones for the Crucifixus and using a chromatic fourth in the bass. The soprano solo of the Agnus Dei exhibits melodic similarities...

and a perfect fourth, and then divides that tone into semitones, third-tones, and quarter tones, to correspond to the diatonic, chromatic, and enharmonic...

which, especially chromatic appoggiaturas and chromatic passing tones, increased in the Romantic Period. The example below shows chromatic nonharmonic tones...