"Semitone" is a word in ENGLISH
Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller
intervals of the diatonic scale.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
Read the complete definitionA character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
Read the complete definitionA half sound; a low tone.
Read the complete definitionTo raise above the proper pitch; to elevate the tone of; especially, to raise a half step, or semitone, above …
Read the complete definitionThe act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the …
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