Sentence examples for whole tone from inspiring English sources
noun
The musical interval equal (exactly or approximately) to two semitones or two-twelfths of an octave
There's a whole-tone motif; I associate the whole tone with French music.
With the last masterly line, the whole tone changes abruptly.
They have measurably influenced the whole tone of action cinema.
But on the following Sunday the whole tone changed.
After a few weeks the whole tone of the press would conform more closely to reality.
This is the source of the system's name: the mean, or average, whole tone.
Thus, the whole-tone scale comprises six degrees per octave.
Whole-tone harmony thus became a means of suspending or dissolving the perception of tonality in music of this period.
— was a placid, whole-tone meditation, shaken by violent outbursts and haunted by ghostly quotations from Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder".
Plain major-key music represents Jo's dream world; chromaticism, whole-tone harmonies, and cluster chords represent reality and change.
As a composer he deployed an excess of dreamy whole-tone glosses, rippling colors and ponderously swelling crescendos.
