| 单词 | semitone |
| 例句 | Why is a cent the hundredth root of a semitone, and why is a semitone the twelfth root of an octave? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The difference between them is less than a quarter of a semitone. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Every interval is then simply a certain number of semitones. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In “Hey-nyo,” a lengthy ensemble number that was the evening’s centerpiece, Ms. Monk charted numerous routes between clashing semitones, unsettling microtonal swoops and gentler harmonies. Review: Meredith Monk, Still Peerless at Shocking Serenity 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z After a while the ear learned to adjust, discovering a rich world of microtones within the space of a standard semitone. Review: International Contemporary Ensemble Weaves Among Tonalities 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z An example of the transformed mood is the ending of the Carlos-Élisabeth duet, sung a semitone lower in the 1867 French. Verdi’s ‘Don Carlos’ arrives at Met Opera in original French 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z When his soloist got laryngitis, Mr. Hines figured out a way for her to sing — by transposing the work down three semitones. Christmas Without Music? Churches Are Finding a Way 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z “The only problem,” he says, “was that the harpsichord was tuned a semitone flat.” Perspective | Can Meghan and Harry make you care about Handel? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Many music lovers prefer the sound of period performances, where original baroque-era instruments are brought into play, and the pitch is usually a semitone lower than today’s standard concert pitch. Seattle Symphony audiences have never heard a ‘Messiah’ production quite like this season’s 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z His voice broke sharply up a couple semitones while his mouth curled down at the corners. The Tears of Brett Kavanaugh 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Strauss, the subject of Ross's first chapter, links the chromatic opulence of late Romanticism with the fractured soundworlds of modernity; and Zarathustra, pivoting between two keys a semitone apart, presages a century of harmonic reinvention. LPO/Jurowski – review 2013-01-20T16:36:36Z What about his String Quartet No. 3, “Black Church,” from 1995: Can the way the players tear through sequences of semitones be seen as a tip of the hat to fast-picked streaks of electric-guitar blues? This Trumpeter’s Legacy Also Includes Composing String Quartets 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z In the Concertante, he specified that the solo viola’s strings should be tuned a semitone higher than normal, ostensibly to intensify the tone. New York Philharmonic, Led by Jaap van Zweden 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z A singer can perform a song out of tune, and Auto-Tune will correct it by bending the pitch to the nearest semitone. Fans suspect X Factor of enhancing singers' pitch with Auto-Tune 2010-08-22T20:11:00Z “Trauermarsch” is based on a falling semitone, G flat down to F, that instantly recalls fateful motifs in Wagner and Mahler, but it takes those associations in a direction wholly new. A Composer Finds the Old in the New 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Another motif, an unsettling slide down a semitone, recalls one that Mahler used in his symphonies to indicate destiny. ‘JFK’ Envisions an Operatic Ending for Camelot 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The process tunes each piece of rock to within 100th of a semitone; this phenomenal accuracy was ensured by computers monitoring the stone. Evelyn Glennie's stone xylophone 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z Carter himself ultimately intervenes to end the debate by returning to the opening semitone – an orchestral A to which the piano throws down the gauntlet with a mischievous B flat. CBSO/Knussen; Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner – review 2012-06-19T16:37:30Z It features a low E which is six semitones lower than the "B Flat" from Rachmaninov's "Vespers." How low can you go? Record label launches bass hunt 2012-02-03T10:30:20Z But the harmony in this system of 12 semitones is extremely coarse and disagreeable. Why are minor keys in music sad? 2010-06-29T12:03:00Z Then producers add some tension by speeding it up and raising its key by one semitone, before the whole thing abruptly stops — at just the point where we want to hear it again. ‘Baby Shark’ Smells Money Onstage 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Analysis of archive interview footage in the five years before and after pregnancy found women’s mean voice pitch dropped by more than 5% – the equivalent to around 1.3 semitones. Women's voices drop by two piano notes after pregnancy 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z “The octave consists only of five tones and two semitones,” he explains. Opinion | The Anxiety of John Stuart Mill 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Eventually, she and Witness created a musical diptych, with two versions of “Hotline Bling,” a semitone apart, separated by a spoken interlude, purportedly the outgoing message on Badu’s cell phone: Erykah Badu, the Godmother of Soul 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Older rockers tend to shift down a semitone when they start struggling to hit the high notes they managed in their 20s. ‘We’ll retire at 106. What else can we do?’ The rockers who won't quit 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Thus some musicians may detect a difference of 1⁄1000th of the total number of vibrations, while other persons may have difficulty in appreciating a semitone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; Ð used especially in organ music. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The sign which lowers the pitch of a note one semitone. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z It occurred to Prudence that Mrs Henry struck a bright note of contrast amid the semitones of the Morgan household. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z The tenor, taking the phrase from the mezzo, dropped a little more, and when the basso got through with it, they were a full semitone lower. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z According to E. H. Weber, practised musicians can perceive a difference of pitch amounting to only the 1⁄64th of a semitone, but this is far beyond average attainment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The first organ possessing keys to give the chromatic tones or semitones was built by a priest—Nicholas Faber by name—about 1360. The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University 2011-10-20T02:00:26.947Z Used before a note already flat, lowering it another semitone. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z The tenor commenced, but, instead of doing so in the key in which they were playing, he began to sing a semitone higher, in E natural. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z Her voice rarely passed beyond a musical semitone, and yet you rarely failed to catch each word it uttered. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Thus 2800 fibres distributed over the tones of seven octaves would give 400 fibres for each octave, or nearly 33 for a semitone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Nothing has a greater effect than a gay person who for once falls into the semitones of sorrow. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z Used before a note already sharp, raising the pitch by a semitone. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z "Her science and skill are such as to enable her to run over every tone and semitone with an ease and grace that cost apparently no effort." Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z Therefore I am glad of every individuality, of every manner, as of a new semitone in the church music of natures. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z Enharmon�ic, in music, is an epithet applied to intervals smaller than the regular divisions of the scale, i.e. less than semitones. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z I would find grievous ways to have thee slain, Intense device, and superflux of pain, Relapse and reluctation of the breath, Dumb tunes and shuddering semitones of death. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The sign which raises the pitch of a note one semitone. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z The sentence reads for all the world like a twentieth-century eulogy of an ardent motorist, if we substitute for tone and semitone the words woman and child. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z Mersenne’s tablature for fingering the flute differs but little from those of Hotteterre-le-Romain24 and Eisel25 for the diatonic scale; he does not give the chromatic semitones and the flute had as yet no keys. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z At any rate, the two vary by the interval of a semitone. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z The Well-tempered Clavier, or, Preludes and Fugues in all tones and semitones, composed for the profit and use of young musicians desirous of knowledge, as also for those who are skilled already in this studio. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z The tune, like those of our psalms, was solemn and slow, containing many notes and semitones. Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods 2011-01-12T03:00:35.190Z A sight-singing manual which I picked up the other day says that the whole matter of singing at sight lies in knowing where the semitones come. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. There are eleven holes mathematically placed in the tube which give the semitones of the scale; there are no keys. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z A kaleidoscopic blending and interchanging of twelve semitones within the three-mirror tube of Taste, Emotion, and Intention—the essential feature of the harmony of to-day. Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music There are two keys and eight holes; the first consists of two small holes on the same level giving a semitone if only one be closed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" A large proportion of people can observe a difference of four vibrations, and keen ears a difference of less than one vibration; whereas the semitone, at middle C, is a step of about sixteen vibrations. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life And from one point of view this is true, but to the Tonic Sol-faist the semitones always come in the same places, i.e., between me and fah, and between te and doh. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. The first violins are caught napping, and without a book, and while playing her own part, she detects and corrects a mistake of a semitone in the accompaniment. Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso But the tonal system above sketched must first of all train the hearing to thirds of a tone, without giving up the semitones. Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music From the sublime to the arabesque is but a semitone in his antic mind. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The smallest step on the piano, called the "semitone", is one-twelfth of an octave; but it must not be supposed that this is the smallest difference that can be perceived. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life They habitually sing the Litany, which lasts fifteen minutes, unaccompanied, and if they flatten at all, it is not more than a semitone. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. The exercise is to be taken at a convenient pitch, and then to be raised semitone by semitone in accordance with the requirements of individual voices. The Mechanism of the Human Voice To summarize: We may set up either two series of third-tones, with an interval of a semitone between the series; or, the usual semitonic series thrice repeated at the interval of one-third of a tone. Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music Had Olympus conspired to ridicule our love, that we must exchange our parting vows to the public strains of “The Caledonian Hunt’s Delight,” in Gow’s version and a semitone flat? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) It seems that, at one of the concerts in a small town, the pianoforte was a semitone too low, whereupon young Brahms transposed at sight a difficult Beethoven Sonata into the requisite higher key. Music: An Art and a Language The class of mistake I refer to is that which confuses the place of the semitones in the scale. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. Raise and lower the exercise semitone by semitone within the medium part of your voice. The Mechanism of the Human Voice In England, under the reign of the high “concert pitch,” the most familiar works may be played a semitone higher than they are written, without changing their effect. Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music It consists of a double series of bells forming an octave with tones and semitones. Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook The Lydian mode is identical with our major scale except for the semitone between the 4th and 5th degrees. Music: An Art and a Language The semitone keys are inlaid with silver, ivory, and various woods, each key being composed of two hundred and fifty pieces. How the Piano Came to Be It has been proved by experiment that a very sensitive ear can distinguish between sounds varying in pitch by only 1⁄64th of a semitone, or but half the range of any one Corti fibre. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use But there is no apparent reason for giving up the semitones for the sake of this new system. Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music As on a pianoforte keyboard, the white spaces correspond to the tones, and the black to the semitones. Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook Their essential peculiarity is the freer relationship of tones and semitones than is found in the definite pattern of our modern scales. Music: An Art and a Language And, really, except that Fenwick seemed a little drowsy and reflective, and that Rosalind had a semitone of consolation in her manner towards him, there was nothing to excite suspicion. Somehow Good The normal ear has such a range as to give about 33 rods to the semitone. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use By retaining, for each whole tone, a semitone, we obtain a second series of whole tones lying a semitone higher than the original series. Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music The discs for the semitones have the sharp on one side and the flat on the other, e.g., re♯-mi♭ are written on the opposite sides of the same disc. Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook It is noteworthy that each variation contains a modulation to a key a semitone higher, thus affording a factor of unity amid the elaborate flowerings of the musical thought. Music: An Art and a Language Fancy saying 'Yes, shut it,' in a confidential semitone! Somehow Good His voice ranges within a semitone of two octaves. Music and Some Highly Musical People Then, by dividing this second series of whole tones into third-tones, each third-tone in the lower series will be matched by a semitone in the higher series. Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music "In Greek music the scales were called moods or modes and were subject to great variation in the arrangement of tones and semitones." Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Also, a margin of error of only a semitone is as good as could be expected considering the small number of examples on which the averages are based. Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries After singing for ten minutes, the key had usually fallen a full semitone. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage Do you mean the twelve semitones, as some suggest? Cardinal Newman as a Musician Their smallest intervals are semitones, which have been in use, like everything else in China, from time immemorial. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science On a single note of this piano one string may have remained in perfect tune, the second may have flatted by the merest fraction of a semitone, and the third by a slightly greater interval. The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern In the elementary classes it is shown how scales and chords are formed, and where the tones and semitones occur. The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze They had both sharps and flats: we have neither, but a mere set of semitones, which serve for both. Gryll Grange But do not, pray, suppose I doubled the notes for semitones, though it looks very like it. Cardinal Newman as a Musician Each of the six lateral mouths of these curious men is capable of sounding only one vowel, and of varying its musical pitch about five or six semitones. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 The keyboard had eleven, twelve, even thirteen keys in diatonic succession without semitones. The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments Then, too, there are songs framed in the scale with a sharp fourth; and we also find, though more rarely in Negro music, the augmented interval of three semitones. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 And now the shadows were closing upon the room, and in the hush of sunset the voice of the waters had lifted its pitch and was humming insistently, with but a semitone's fall and rise. Fort Amity Thus the number of possible modes is vastly greater than in our own scale, which has only semitones. Woman's Work in Music The modern harp of Wales has no pedals for the semitones in modulations. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Gradually the keys were reduced in size and the semitones were added. The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments In the diatonic, there are two consecutive tones, and the third interval of a semitone completes the tetrachord. The Ten Books on Architecture The Tremor may be used to express grief, supplication, tenderness, in which the interval through which it ranges may be wide, or, for a more plaintive effect, be limited to the semitone. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Their use is referred to in the next line, to 'tune' the strings, i.e., to 'stop' the string accurately at each semitone. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries The semitone between the third and the fourth is too small, as is also that between the seventh and eighth. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present It is unlike any other; yet underneath lies the original tinge of orientalism, the wailing semitones of all barbaric music. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers A diesis is a quarter tone; hence in a semitone there are included two dieses. The Ten Books on Architecture This of course may be produced with intervals, either upward or downward, of any degree—tone, semitone, third, fifth, or octave. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 The 'cliff' is what is now called a 'clef,' or 'key,' because its position on the staff gave the 'key' to the position of the semitones and tones on the various lines and spaces. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries This note would now be marked as a semitone below the C of thirty-two feet. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present In practising scales start each a semitone higher until the easy limit of the voice is reached, and no farther. Resonance in Singing and Speaking The scale proceeds from one semitone to another; each is different; each, as you go on, requires greater height, wherefore the position of the organs cannot remain the same for several different tones. How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] Utter the syllable pä as a concrete, with rising and falling intervals, severally, of a second, third, fifth, and an octave; also with intervals of a semitone; also with a tremor. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 This destroys the distinction between the semitones, and C sharp and D flat become the same note. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 The singer's voice frequently ascends to its highest natural tone and, after dwelling there for from three to six seconds, suddenly slurs down an octave, where it remains playing around three or four consecutive semitones. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir It is in the wind of their mountains and the semitones of their streams; and their nature can make it a gladness as the Anglo-Saxon cannot. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes In order not to weary young voices too much, it is best to begin in the middle range, going upward first, by semitones, and then, starting again with the same tone, going downward. How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] Exercise.—With the syllable pä exemplify the equable concrete and the several varieties of stress, using different degrees of initial or radical pitch, and the various intervals of the tone, semitone, third, fifth, and octave. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 That all octaves must remain perfect, each being divided into twelve semitones. Piano Tuning A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs Combined the moods: in Greek music the scales were called moods or modes, and were subject to great variation in the arrangement of tones and semitones. Men and Women The interval we call an octave seems to be divided with them into six tones, without any intermediate semitones, which must confine their music to one key. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants These two octaves will have been covered, when, advancing the starting-point by semitones, the scale has been carried up through an entire octave. How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] Its seven pedals must be employed in different ways when notes are to be raised or lowered a semitone; chromatic passages easy of execution on the piano are almost impracticable on the harp. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 He turned to music, and challenged his fair visitors to guess the note made by the falling water: it hummed on E natural, rising now and then by something less than a semitone. Poison Island For the fourth hexachord, which was called hard, this B was again raised a semitone. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University A Chromatic progression is one in which the pitch is changed a semitone, while the name remains the same. A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons A good plan in this case is to raise the pitch a semitone; it is often just as easy for singing, and invariably produces a sense of cheerfulness. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students 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. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 They have, to a considerable extent, superseded hand stopping, by which expedient the intonation could be altered a semitone or whole tone, by depression of the natural notes of the instrument. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 In speaking of Hindu music, I explained that what we call a mode consists of a scale, and that one mode differs from another only in the position of the semitones in this scale. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Here the bell in the cathedral struck the tenth hour; not a semitone had this voice of bronze changed in all these years. The Goose Girl After singing for ten minutes, the key had usually fallen a full semitone. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2 "The fellow's a swindler!" cried The Other Man in an angry semitone. Across China on Foot In large bass and contralto instruments, a fourth piston is added, which lowers the pitch two tones and a semitone. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 For instance, in our major mode the scale is arranged as follows: tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University He knows the emerald route and all the semitones of sensuousness. Promenades of an Impressionist That tonality in which the upper two of the three tones constituting its tonic chord, when ranged upward from its foundation tone, are found at distances of four and seven semitones respectively from it. The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe Some of them have a scale of your whole nervous system, and can play all the gamut of your sensibilities in semitones,—touching the naked nerve-pulps as a pianist strikes the keys of his instrument. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 The player has seven positions, each a semitone apart for elongation, and each note has its own system of harmonics, but in practice he only occasionally goes beyond the fifth. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 The chromatic pitch also had several forms, necessitating the use of small fractional tones as well as semitones. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Try the reverse, that is, divide the interval B sharp-C into seven commas on the semitones A flat-G; it will be unendurable. Delsarte System of Oratory That tonality in which the upper two of the three tones constituting its tonic chord, when ranged upward from its foundation tone, are found at distances of three and seven semitones respectively from it. The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe To Leon Kantor, by who knows what symphonic scheme of things, life was a chromatic scale, yielding up to him through throbbing, living nerves of sheep-gut, the sheerest semitones of man's emotions. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 "My angel, it is I," was returned, a semitone lower. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 A Dorian tetrachord is composed of semitone, tone, tone; to make it chromatic, it was changed as follows: the l�chanos, or index finger string, being lowered a semitone. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University The note is, therefore, practically divided into two semitones of four commas and a half. Delsarte System of Oratory The group of six notes marked with an asterisk are trilled on the semitone interval. The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe He glanced cautiously at an elderly gentleman who was stirring up a box of ties, then, lowering his voice another semitone, added, "The mills are now being used exclusively for Government work." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917 And your semitones, and semicircles, and semi-quavers used sometimes to worry me, I own. Angels & Ministers Observing the third hexachord on our list we see that in order to make it identical in structure with the first and second, the B had to be lowered a semitone. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University "Passional trueness," said Delsarte, "consists in giving each semitone three, four, five, six, or even seven commas, according to its tendency." Delsarte System of Oratory There were the semitone of voice and half-hidden expression of eyes which tell the initiated how very fragile is the ice of reserve at these times. A Pair of Blue Eyes To Leon Kantor, by who knows what symphonic scheme of things, life was a chromatic scale, yielding up to him, through throbbing, living nerves of sheep-gut, the sheerest semitones of man's emotions. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It The separate notes may be distinctly perceived, with intervals of about a semitone. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 After this—August, September, October—our uplands faint out in semitones: grey scabious, grey harebell, pale bed-straw, white meadowsweet, like the lace of an old lady's cap. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution It would be unpardonable not to know how to distinguish or at least to sound a semitone. Delsarte System of Oratory Now suddenly a cry went up, pitched on a high note and descending by semitones, like a dying wind, into a moan. The Native Born or, the Rajah's People It is in phrases of three bars in rising semitones, A flat—A natural—A natural—B flat, ending in the beautiful strain No. 13 as they fall asleep in one another's arms. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama These microtonal intervals permit fine shades of musical expression unattainable by the Western chromatic scale of 12 semitones. Autobiography of a Yogi Her answer, under the presure of the warring emotions, was a semitone lower, and less distinctly enunciated than those that had gone before it. At Last Two double-basses give only a semitone, which half a double-bass renders of itself. Delsarte System of Oratory It is a law of music, for instance, that the human being prefers an octave in absolute unison, and not an octave of which one note is a semitone flat. Escape, and Other Essays And my soul heard the songs and groans That are about and under thrones, And felt through all time's murmur thrill Fate's old imperious semitones That made of good and ill One same tune still. Songs Before Sunrise "Oh, then she is married?" exclaimed Miss Cahere, and her voice fell three semitones on the last word. The Vultures Now, Indiman is not musical, and I had some trouble in convincing him that within the compass of a semitone a veritable gulf may yawn. The Gates of Chance This is the reason why a semitone progression is felt as so compelling. The Psychology of Beauty Some of them have a scale of your whole nervous system, and can play all the gamut of your sensibilities in semitones, —touching the naked nerve-pulps as a pianist strikes the keys of his instrument. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works That was all, but the Countess' voice and manner expressed surprise and well-bred contempt in semitones. A Woman of Thirty Crossjay's voice ran up and down a diatonic scale with here and there a query in semitone and a laugh on a ringing note. The Egoist |
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