semitones

Instead, their treacherously clustered semitones and contrapuntal subtleties became otherworldly and transcendent.

In performance: Yale Glee Club 150th Alfred Thigpen 2011

The octave being always divided into five tones and two limmas [diatonic semitones]; by increasing the tones equally … the difference between the major and minor limma will be contracted to nothing, which … annihilates all the false consonances.

Why are minor keys in music sad? 2010

Well, simply because Carrillo had 'discovered' the first pitch outside the traditional 12 semitones to the octave.

Did you know? Mexico's Nobel Prize nominee and music revolutionary 2008

Smith is talking about something else we now take completely for granted (it's in the way pianos are tuned, and the way we hear most music today): the division of the octave into 12 equal semitones.

Why are minor keys in music sad? 2010

Well, simply because Carrillo had 'discovered' the first pitch outside the traditional 12 semitones to the octave.

Did you know? Mexico's Nobel Prize nominee and music revolutionary 2008

But the harmony in this system of 12 semitones is extremely coarse and disagreeable.

Why are minor keys in music sad? 2010

It gives an interval of 11/10 [= (2 (2/12) - 35 cents) = 1.65 semitones] between G+ 111 [= 5.51 semitones] and F# 51 [= 3.86 semitones].

Talkin' Blues Matthew Guerrieri 2006

The hallmarks of their style were atonality and a twelve-tone method of composition; that is, a style in which a piece's melodies and harmonies are all drawn from a particular arrangement of twelve semitones or half-steps on the modern scale.

From the archives: Banishing silence M-mv 2008

It gives an interval of 11/10 [= (2 (2/12) - 35 cents) = 1.65 semitones] between G+ 111 [= 5.51 semitones] and F# 51 [= 3.86 semitones].

Archive 2006-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006

He played some MP3s at 33.33% too fast, which transposes it up 4 semitones, he said.

weekend fun tenshi_a 2007