Semitone is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SEMITONE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• half a tone, one of the lesser intervals of the musical scale, as from B to C
• the smallest interval used in classical Western music, equal to a twelfth of an octave or half a tone; a half step.
• smallest interval between two notes in Western music
• Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.
• the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a type of musical tone

Words related to SEMITONE

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Words that contain SEMITONE

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How to use SEMITONE in a sentence

• The minor triad differs from the major only in that the second member is lowered a semi-tone.
• The augmented triad differs from the major only in that the third member is raised a semi-tone.
• The diminished triad differs from the minor only in that the third member is lowered a semi-tone.
• The altered triad is a chord different by a semi-tone from any of the above.
• It would be unpardonable not to know how to distinguish or at least to sound a semitone.
• Two double-basses give only a semitone, which half a double-bass renders of itself.
• She was perfectly natural about it, a recitative semi-tone yet full of expression and dramatic breadth, at times almost a chant.
• These made a jingling and dissonant music as it flew, being generally tuned one semitone below another, that they might be the more sonorous considering their small size.

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