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Definition of Semitone
1. Noun. The musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument.
Definition of Semitone
1. n. Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.
Definition of Semitone
1. Noun. (music) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) The musical interval equal (exactly or approximately) to half a tone or one-twelfth of an octave ¹
2. Noun. (music) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Any of the pitches of the chromatic scale ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Semitone
1. a type of musical tone [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semitone
Literary usage of Semitone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Thus to pass semitone lower it was necessary to lengthen the slide by two fingers ;
if the semitone higher was required the slide had to be shortened to the ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"The semitone may be of different kinds, each of which has a different ...
the fourth has been subdivided artificially into two tones and a semitone. ..."
3. Orthophony: Or, The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution. A Manual of by James Edward Murdoch, James Rush, George James Webb (1877)
"The effect of the " semitone " extends over all the interval•, ... The principal
applications of the " semitone " are found in the " monotone," the ..."
4. Elements of Notation and Harmony: With Fifty-eight Exercises for Use in by Ludwig Bussler (1890)
"The semitone is the smallest interval between two tones. By "semitone" therefore
we never understand any fixed pitch, such as c or cjj, but the interval ..."
5. The Art of Singing: Based on the Principles of the Old Italian Singing by William Shakespeare (1910)
"С to Q being a semitone, and CJJ! to Da semitone, С to D is a tone (a whole ...
From С to D is a tone, from D to Ea tone, but from E to F is a semitone ..."
6. School Elocution: A Manual of Vocal Training in High Schools, Normal Schools by John Swett (1884)
"THE semitone. When the voice slides through the interval of a semitone only, ...
The semitone, then, is the plaintive tone in reading, corresponding to the ..."
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