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semitone::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | half step |
| Type of | interval, musical interval |
Examples of semitone
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The bassoon drops a semitone on the horns which leads directly into the rondo.
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A quarter tone is half the width of a semitone, which is half the width of a whole tone.
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Thankfully, Gary was on hand to inform us all that the track was a semitone TOO FUN tonight.
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These six pitches are named ut, re, mi, fa, sol, and la, with the semitone between mi and fa.
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Typically the alteration is a semitone or less, but this varies among performers and genres.
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The one new musical challenge that has come about is we are singing the opera down a semitone.
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Small movements of the needle, or LED, usually represent a tuning error of 1 cent of a semitone.
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In the chromatic scale, the interval between adjacent notes is called a half-step or semitone.
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An equal-tempered semitone is subdivided into 100 cents.
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- The musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument
- A semitone, also called a half step or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically. It is defined as the interval between two adjacent notes in a 12-tone scale (e.g. from C to C). ...
- (The Semitones) Johnny and the Semitones (later known as The Semitones) were a 1960s archetypal English beat group. ...
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) The musical interval equal (exactly or approximately) to half a tone or one-twelfth of an octave; (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Any of the pitches of the chromatic scale
- A half step. The smallest interval on the keyboard.
- The smallest interval in music. The chromatic scale that contains all the available notes in western music contains twelve semitones.
- A movement or interval of one note (or fret).
- Distance between any two adjacent notes on a chromatic scale. Sequence: Never mind what fingers, picking or rhythm their using - just make sure they are playing the right notes in the right order.
- An interval which is when the notes are one fret apart on the guitar.
