Meaning of chromatization | Babel Free
Definitions
- Staining; the acquisition of color.
- A transition toward chromatic atonality.
Examples
“My constant effort was to get catgut and kangaroo tendons and other things that would absorb quickly, and I have tried all these different methods, and I finally tried the method of Boerckman to sterilize catgut dry without a partical of chromatization, and found it is good, but it does not last three weeks, it lasts three or four days.”
“The nucleus of the cell is large and spherical; the chromatization is poor.”
“In Composing for Film Adorno argues that the break he identifies between the bourgeois public and genuine Bourgeois art-music 'can be dated back to Tristan (GS 15: 59-60/CF 57), while in the Mahler book he insists that what he terms 'chromatization as the dequalifying of material' has been 'driving music along one-dimensionally since Tristan' (M 167/MMP 19).”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.