Sentence examples for a semitone from inspiring English sources

A semitone or half-step is counted as one in distance.

A sharp raises a note by a semitone; a flat lowers it by a semitone; a natural restores it to the original pitch.

But suddenly the bass quietly slides a semitone upwards, opening new harmonic territories.

They are approximately a whole tone, a semitone, and an intermediate tone.

The Earth, with its almost circular path could sing two notes, separated by a semitone.

The difference is the comma of Didymus, or syntonic comma, and equals 0.22 of a semitone.

For example, mi-fa was always a semitone, no matter how high or low the two pitches were sung.

Levitin, because the word "tone" has more than one meaning, speaks of a "whole step" and a semitone.

This started life as Magnificat in D, which Bach himself transposed up a semitone to a traditionally festive key.

A pentatonic variant of the Zulu hexatonic system cited above, it is based on two instrumental roots a semitone apart.

Pedal harp, musical instrument in which pedals control a mechanism raising the pitch of given strings by a semitone (single action) or by both a semitone and a whole tone (double action).