tonenoun(DIFFERENCE IN SOUND)mainly UK

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Notes of the musical scale
B, b
blue note
C, c
D, d
doh
flat
la
lah
major
mi
middle C
minor
natural
ray
re
register
run
soh
sol
sol-fa

Examples of semitone

semitone
And here the semitones are the responsible party, or to be more precise, the major semitone.
These pitches are then connected in descending sweeps from the highest semitone in the series, creating fast chromatic scales.
In this, and the remaining scores, the actual pitch of the instruments is about a semitone lower than written.
The so-called major scale is defined by the intervals: tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, semitone.
The hermit thrush uses a pentatonic scale, the canyon wren all twelve semitones.
He also often tuned a semitone below normal tuning, producing a different timbre and more opportunities for string bending.
Movement during the performance of the structure might transform the pitch space within a range from one semitone to six octaves. 12.
Its pitch was either unchanged (no distortion), or lowered by 3 semitones (moderate distortion) or 6 semitones (severe distortion).
The representation of pitch in relative semitones is made on a scale for minimum of 0 to a maximum of 24.
The pitch differences show a range of roughly 30 semitones.
The second species of diapason has a semitone after its fourth; the fifth, a whole tone.
Rather, their concern is to perform tones and semitones correctly.
Total amount of pitch change (including all fluctuations) was measured in semitones and normalized for syllable duration.
This phrase has a pitch bend down and then back up of about 2/3 of a semitone (about 67 cents).
This acute concern in medieval notational and pedagogical systems with the placement of semitones suggests very strongly that they are important to tonal organization.
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