Chromaticism

musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below another

major and minor scales with the same key signature

major chord built on the lowered second (supertonic) scale degree

thumb|right|300px|Chromatic fourth: lament bass bassline in Dm (D–C–C()–B–B–A)[[File:Lament bass.mid]] thumb|300px|The diatonic scale notes (above) and the non-scale chromatic notes (below)

type of dissonance in polyphonic music

harmonic device in Western music

chord that contains the interval of an augmented sixth

gamut in ancient Chinese music

type of melody or melodic fragment

terms in music theory to characterize scales

chord borrowed from the parallel key