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- adjective Alternative spelling of
coloristic .
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Examples
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In a category by themselves are pieces such as La nuict froide et sombre Du Bellay, set as an expansive, colouristic tone poem in style even though characteristically brief in actual duration.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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Her paintings, invariably oil on board, were heavily worked and reworked, layer upon layer, to achieve complex colouristic effects.
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Saariaho adapts a medieval tune in some sections, but there was no feeling of discontinuity between the bony simplicity of that melody and her colouristic scoring, delicately realized by conductor Johannes Debus and the COC Orchestra.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Robert Everett-Green 2012
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It has its own, different beauty - more colouristic, molten, and dreamy.
Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2010
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The Seventh is still the least performed of the cycle, but Abbado's recording reveals its visionary, colouristic genius.
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Most appealingly personal of all is Sponsa quid agis, for five voices, thought to have been composed for Lassus’s marriage in 1558; here the colouristic harmony on the words ‘Non me lasciviae veneris’, in an otherwise diatonic framework, is a charming bit of musical allusion.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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