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Ruth Radelet (/ ˈ r æ d ə l eɪ /, [1] born April 28, 1982) [2] [3] is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She is best known for her work as the lead vocalist in the electronic band Chromatics, formed in 2001. [4]
Melodies can be based on a diatonic scale and maintain its tonal characteristics but contain many accidentals, up to all twelve tones of the chromatic scale, such as the opening of Henry Purcell's "Thy Hand, Belinda" from Dido and Aeneas (1689) with figured bass), which features eleven of twelve pitches while chromatically descending by half steps, [1] the missing pitch being sung later.
Some color spaces separate the three dimensions of color into one luminance dimension and a pair of chromaticity dimensions. For example, the white point of an sRGB display is an x, y chromaticity of (0.3127, 0.3290), where x and y coordinates are used in the xyY space.
Increased chromaticism is often cited as one of the main causes or signs of the "breakdown" of tonality, in the form of increased importance or use of: mode mixture; leading tones; tonicization of each chromatic step and other secondary key areas; modulatory space; hierarchical organizations of the chromatic set such as George Perle's
On November 5, Chromatics released seven cover versions of Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", [33] one which was featured in an ad for Mango featuring Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne, and another that is featured in the trailer for the 2019 Netflix original series Baby. The band released a music video for the title track "Dear Tommy" on ...
Colorimetry, the science of color is sometimes called chromatics; Chromaticity, the quality of a color as determined by its "purity" and dominant wavelength; Chromatic aberration, departures from perfect imaging in optics systems due to dispersion; Chromatic dispersion, the dispersion of light due to differing refraction index for different ...
Lightening a color by adding white can cause a shift towards blue when mixed with reds and oranges. Another practice when darkening a color is to use its opposite, or complementary, color (e.g. purplish-red added to yellowish-green) to neutralize it without a shift in hue and darken it if the additive color is darker than the parent color.
The preeminent scholarly journal publishing research papers in color science is Color Research and Application, [1] started in 1975 by founding editor-in-chief Fred Billmeyer, along with Gunter Wyszecki, Michael Pointer and Rolf Kuehni, as a successor to the Journal of Colour (1964–1974).