Info Catalog music-glossary: semibreve music-glossary: Musical terms A-Z music-glossary: seventh

music-glossary: semitone

 
 1.265 semitone
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 ES: semitono, I: semitono, F: demi-ton, D: Halbton, NL: halve toon, DK:
 halvtone, S: halvton, FI: puolisävel.
 
    The interval of a minor second.  The (usually) smallest interval in
 European composed music.  The interval between two neighboring tones on
 the piano keyboard – including black and white keys – is a semitone.  An
 octave may be divided into 12 semitones.
 
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 See also
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    interval, chromatic scale.
 

Info Catalog music-glossary: semibreve music-glossary: Musical terms A-Z music-glossary: seventh