Meanings of semitone in English

This is the reason why a semitone progression is felt as so compelling.

After singing for ten minutes, the key had usually fallen a full semitone.

The group of six notes marked with an asterisk are trilled on the semitone interval.

Holsten was sure her voice lifted a semitone, that one of her eyebrows even twitched.

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

In large bass and contralto instruments, a fourth piston is added, which lowers the pitch two tones and a semitone.

When semitone conversions were applied and neutral prosody was subtracted out, differences remained for emotion type but not for sex.

We shall lose sight of the semitone, and arrive at no longer perceiving anything but the third, then the fourth, finally the fifth.

Her answer, under the pressure of the warring emotions, was a semitone lower, and less distinctly enunciated than those that had gone before it.

Crossjay's voice ran up and down a diatonic scale with here and there a query in semitone and a laugh on a ringing note.

Thus, parhypate, which in the enharmonic is at the interval of half a semitone from hypate, has a semitone interval when transferred to the chromatic.

Now, Indiman is not musical, and I had some trouble in convincing him that within the compass of a semitone a veritable gulf may yawn.

Brüder was striding faster now, as if subconsciously keeping pace with the symphony's tempo, which had increased into a cascading series of descending semitone suspensions.

That all octaves must remain perfect, each being divided into twelve semitones.

The modern harp of Wales has no pedals for the semitones in modulations.

Its distinguishing characteristic is an interval, which contains three semitones:-