- A semitone, also
called a
minor second,
half step, or a
half tone, is the
smallest musical interval commonly used in
Western tonal music, and it is considered...
- on the
paper and not a
photographic range of
tones; only
black (or coloured) ink, or nothing. The
half-
tone process overcame these limitations and became...
- quarter-
tone flat, a
standard flat
symbol for a
half-
tone flat, and a flat sign
combined with a
slashed or
reversed flat sign for a three-quarter-
tone flat...
- A
quarter tone is a
pitch halfway between the
usual notes of a
chromatic scale or an
interval about half as wide (orally, or logarithmically) as a semitone...
- or A6
chord tone (respectively) in
order to
modulate to a key a
half-step away (descending or ascending); if the fifth-from-root
chord tone of a German...
- A
nonchord tone (NCT),
nonharmonic tone, or
embellishing tone is a note in a
piece of
music or song that is not part of the
implied or
expressed chord...
-
between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters.
Tone is the use of
pitch in
language to
distinguish lexical or
grammatical meaning—that...
- A
tone cluster is a
musical chord comprising at
least three adjacent tones in a scale.
Prototypical tone clusters are
based on the
chromatic scale and...
-
successively sounding tones, such as two
adjacent pitches in a melody, and
vertical or
harmonic if it
pertains to
simultaneously sounding tones, such as in a...
-
tetrachord tone—
half tone—
tone),
Phrygian (E—d—e
defined by the
tetrachord half tone—
tone—
tone), and
Lydian were
already enough to
represent the
tone system...
