COLORATION

coloration

Noun

  1. The act or art of coloring.
  2. The quality of being colored.
  3. A notational devise for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation); or
  4. Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid "black notes".


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