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Interval of a half step in the scale
Answer for the clue "Interval of a half step in the scale ", 8 letters:
semitone
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument [syn: half step ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from semi- + tone (n.) in the musical sense.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In the following bars the conflict is even greater, as the note relationships are closer - tones and semitones. ▪ The first two-bar phrase uses all twelve semitones except A. ▪ The last bar is full of counter-movement, both in ...
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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 ...
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.