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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A percussion instrument consisting of a mounted row of wooden bars that are graduated in length to sound a chromatic scale, played with two small mallets.  1, record 1, English, - xylophone

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Instrument à percussion formé de lames de bois de longueurs croissantes sur lesquelles on frappe avec des mailloches.  2, record 1, French, - xylophone

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

chromatic :[Said of an instrument] capable of producing all the tones of the chromatic scale.  2, record 2, English, - chromatic%20accordion

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Un accordéon chromatique permet de jouer les 12 notes de la gamme chromatique, sur plusieurs octaves (un peu à la manière d'un piano). Chaque bouton de la main droite est alors associé à une note, et le son est le même en tirant et en poussant le soufflet.  2, record 2, French, - accord%C3%A9on%20chromatique

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 3,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

In music, a tone row or note row..., also series or set,... is a non-repetitive ordering of a set of pitch-classes, typically of the twelve notes in musical set theory of the chromatic scale, though both larger and smaller sets are sometimes found.  3, record 3, English, - set

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The set(or tone row) contains the twelve tones of the chromatic scale arranged in a different order for each composition.  5, record 3, English, - set

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Suite des douze demi-tons de la gamme chromatique [...]  2, record 3, French, - s%C3%A9rie

Record 3,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 4,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A condition of music in which the constructs of the music do not live within the confines of a particular key signature or scale(other than the chromatic scale).  2, record 4, English, - atonality

Record 4,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 DEF

État d’une musique dans laquelle sont suspendues les fonctions et lois tonales [...]  3, record 4, French, - atonalit%C3%A9

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L'atonalité (ou atonalisme) est un terme qui décrit à la fois une technique de composition et l'état harmonique qui en résulte.  2, record 4, French, - atonalit%C3%A9

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Record 5,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 DEF

[A] music organized without reference to key or tonal center and using the tones of a chromatic scale impartially.  2, record 5, English, - atonal%20music

Record 5,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 CONT

La musique atonale résulte de l'emploi de l'atonalité comme élément de composition. L'atonalité [est] un système d'écriture qui remet en cause en profondeur les habitudes de composition traditionnelles et la théorie de la musique occidentale [...] Cette technique se caractérise par l'émancipation des dissonances et le rejet de toute hiérarchie tonale [...]  2, record 5, French, - musique%20atonale

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Record 6,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A scale which divides the octave into its semitones.  2, record 6, English, - chromatic%20scale

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 CONT

There are twelve semitones, or half steps, to an octave in the chromatic scale.  2, record 6, English, - chromatic%20scale

Record 6,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 CONT

La gamme chromatique se forme par l'intercalation, entre les 7 degrés de la gamme diatonique, de 5 demi-tons chromatiques, obtenus par l'emploi des altérations accidentelles.  2, record 6, French, - gamme%20chromatique

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 2 CONT

L'intervalle séparant chacun des degrés de la gamme chromatique est toujours d'un demi-ton.  3, record 6, French, - gamme%20chromatique

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Record 7,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Standard number: CAN/CGSB-4.2 64-M91  1, record 7, English, - Chromatic%20Transference%20Scale

Record 7,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Numéro de norme : CAN/CGSB-4.2 64-M91  1, record 7, French, - %C3%89chelle%20de%20transfert%20chromatique

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Record 8,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 OBS

value : Artist's term for degree of lightness on a scale of grays running from black to white. Chromatic colors can be similarly evaluated; the darker ones are said to be lower in value or in a lower key. The scientist's term for value is lightness.  2, record 8, English, - color%20value

Record 8,  Textual support,  French

Record 8,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 9,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 OBS

in [the Hammond organ] toothed iron wheels rotating in magnetic fields generate sinusoidal signals at frequencies of the equally tempered chromatic scale  1, record 9, English, - toothed%20wheel

Record 9,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 OBS

dans d'autres orgues, un -- tourne devant un aimant permanent servant de noyau à une inductance et fait varier le flux magnétique dans celle-ci où des courants sont induits.  1, record 9, French, - disque%20festonn%C3%A9

Record 9,  Textual support,  Spanish