semitones in English

noun
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the smallest interval used in classical Western music, equal to a twelfth of an octave or half a tone; a half step.
Smaller intervals were derived on the same principles, so that the octave could eventually be marked out into tones and semitones which might be combined to form other intervals.
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1. The D has a double sharp Accidental next to it, raising it two semitones, and the G has a double flat Accidental, lowering it two semitones

2. Chromatic definition: In music , Chromatic means related to the scale that consists only of semitones

3. Twelve-tone equal temperament divides the octave into 12 semitones of 100 Cents each

4. Put simply, a Chromatic scale is all twelve notes arranged in ascending or descending order of pitch. It’s made up entirely of semitones (half steps) with each note being a semitone above or below the last note

5. The reason you see double Accidentals so rarely is that a D raised by two semitones is enharmonically equivalent to (in other words, it sounds the same as) an E♮, which is in the key signature of C Major.

6. Pitch-bend messages range in ±2 semitones (sometimes adjustable with Registered Parameter Numbers ), with precision of 1/8192 semitone. (The human ear cannot hear the difference between adjacent pure tones that differ by less than 1/20 semitone.

7. Aristoxenus and the Auletic viewpoint 151 ‘Pythagorean’ orthodoxy 158 Thrasyllus 159 Nicomachus, ‘Timaeus Locrus’ and Boethius 160 Minor Sources 166 Superparticularity 169 Archytas 171 Eratosthenes 182 Didymus 187 Ptolemy 194 6 Going beyond Ptolemy? 217 The soft diatonic and tense chromatic semitones 217 Modality 219 Focal notes 219

8. Musical intervalsare often expressed in Cents, a unit of pitch based upon the equal tempered octavesuch that one equal tempered semitoneis equal to 100 Cents. An octave is then 1200¢ and the other equal tempered intervals can be obtained by adding semitones: If f1= Hz and f2= Hz then the interval is Cents.