gamut

The gamut initially contained 21 notes, up to dd. Later, the third hexachord on G was completed by the addition of a 22nd note, an ee. Having 22 notes in the system may also have reflected the notion of “entirety,” as a parallel to the 22 letters of the Greek and Hebrew alphabets.

Etymology. 1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, from Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma (“Greek letter, corresponding to the musical note G”) + ut (“first solfège syllable, now replaced by do”). In modern terms, “G do” – the first note of the G scale.

gam·​ut ˈgam-ət. : an entire range or series. ran the gamut from rich to poor. Etymology. probably a contraction of gamma ut, a Latin expression in the Middle Ages for "the full range of notes in music," from gamma "the lowest note on the staff" and ut "the first note of the scale"

Full Gamut. CRI is the industry standard for measuring how accurately colors appear to the human eye.

In color theory, the gamut of a device or process is that portion of the color space that can be represented, or reproduced.

We saw the full gamut of tennis from her. The comedy runs the gamut from profoundly uncomfortable to excruciatingly embarrassing in this horribly compelling film. We have the whole gamut of feelings. They were invested with the full gamut of human faculties and emotions.

a range of different things or people : the whole gamut of In her stories she expresses the whole gamut of emotions, from happiness to sorrow.

The essence of the hexachord system is that each hexachord includes only one semitone - between mi and fa. A series of seven overlapping hexachords completed the gamut of formally recognized musical tones, a span of two and one-fourth octaves, containing the notes of the C major scale plus B♭.

Gamma can be described as how smoothly black transitions to white on a digital display. It is often associated with a number like 2.2 or 2.4. This number represents the extent of the curve from black to white, or from white to black.

Aside from music, gamut has other technical uses for classifying other spectra. The most prominent example of this is the idea of a color gamut, which can be used to either describe the range of colors that a device or software program is capable of reproducing from a given color space, or color measurement system.

The color gamut describes a range of colors within the spectrum of colors, or a color space, that can be reproduced on an output device. Depending on how wide the gamut is, every screen will display different quantities of color.

Some common synonyms of gamut are compass, orbit, range, scope, and sweep. While all these words mean "the extent that lies within the powers of something (as to cover or control)," gamut suggests a graduated series running from one possible extreme to another.