Look up: semitone

1. semitone
   [n] - the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument
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2. Semitone
   Sem'i·tone noun [ Prefix semi- + tone . CF. Hemitone .] (Mus.) Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale. » There is an impropriety in the use of this word, and half s...
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3. semitone
   half step noun the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument
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4. Semitone
   • (n.) Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.
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5. semitone
   (from the article `microtonal music`) music using tones that are not an exact number of semitones (half steps) apart. The smallest interval between two keys on a piano (e.g., between B ... ...on an experimental basis. The whole-tone scale (comprising six whole steps) was used prominently by the French composer Claude Debussy and others,...
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6. semitone
   semitone An interval equal to a half tone in the standard diatonic scale. Also called half step, halftone.
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7. Semitone
   In music, a semitone is a half-sized step, as between C and C sharp.
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8. Semitone
   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 sharp-->). This implies that its size i...
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