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semitonic, a. Mus.|sɛmɪˈtɒnɪk|
[f. semitone + -ic.]
Pertaining to or consisting of a semitone or semitones; (of a scale) chromatic.
1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Scale, This, then, is the present Scale for Instruments, viz. Between the Extremes of every Tone of the natural Scale is put a Note, which divides it into two unequal Parts, called Semi-tones, whence the whole may be called the Semitonic scale. 1760Stiles in Phil. Trans. LI. 706 In the diatonic genus, the diapason consisting of five tonic and two semitonic intervals. 1833Rush Philos. Human Voice (ed. 2) 332 note, It is the diatonic shake, the semitonic not being found in his [sc. the mocking-bird's] song. 1838G. F. Graham Mus. Comp. 7/1 The chromatic scales formed from these consist of a semitonic (or so-called semitonic) series between the key-note and its octave.
Hence semiˈtonically adv., by a semitone or semitones.
1838G. F. Graham Mus. Comp. 25/1 The cadence is complete, from the third of dominant rising semitonically..to the tonic itself. 1867Macfarren Harmony iii. 113 Chromatic notes, which must always be quitted semitonically. |