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Discharge some after second interval
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semitone
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Word definitions for semitone in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context music English) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) The musical interval equal (exactly or approximately) to half a tone or one-twelfth of an octave 2 (context music English) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Any of the pitches of the ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from semi- + tone (n.) in the musical sense.
Usage examples of semitone.
Five tones and two semitones in an octave you can put together in a limited number of ways only a few are beautiful and must have already been used up no more Mozart, no more Weber, like the head of the U.
The two works, only a semitone apart in key signature but far apart in almost every other way, should not have fitted.