Semitone

Tuned 1/2 Step (Semitone) down from concert pitch.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Mary Had A Little Lamb, solo tab 2009

The Semitone is very delicate, and must be produced by the nature of the emotion.

The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

= The Semitone =, as has been said before, is an interval sometimes heard in language of distress, complaint, grief, sorrow, tenderness, compassion, pity.

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

= The Wave of the Semitone = is generally employed when time, or syllabic quantity, is needed as an element in the expression of the language of complaint or pathos.

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

Since, as I have said, it is not possible for a Singer to rise gradually with an _Appoggiatura_ to a _Semitone Minor_, Nature will teach him to rise a Tone, that from thence he may descend with an

Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English Pier Francesco Tosi 1692

Therefore going so agreeably from _Mi_ to _Fa_ (that is) from _B Quadro_ to _C_, or from _E_ to _F_, one ought to conclude That to be a _Semitone Major_, as it undeniably is.

Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English Pier Francesco Tosi 1692

[34] The second _Shake_ of a _Semitone Major_, Pl. IV.

Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English Pier Francesco Tosi 1692

Key it is always a _Tone_, and in a flat Key a _Semitone_, Pl. IV.

Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English Pier Francesco Tosi 1692

But on final Cadences, it is always necessary, now on the Tone, now on the _Semitone_ above its

Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English Pier Francesco Tosi 1692

Every one knows not that there is a Semitone Major and

Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English Pier Francesco Tosi 1692