| 单词 | major semitone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmajor semitone a. Of an interval: that is the larger, by a small fraction, of two differently derived versions of the same interval (as major tone, major semitone, major third, etc.) (now historical). Now usually: (of an interval) larger by a semitone than the correlative minor interval; chiefly in major third, major sixth, major seventh, (occasionally major fourth and major fifth, usually called perfect). Hence also: designating the note separated by a major interval from a given note. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [adjective] > major plain1445 perfecta1450 greater1597 major1653 sharp1694 1653 Ld. Brouncker tr. R. Descartes Excellent Compend. Musick 30 A certaine Fraction, which may be the difference betwixt a Tone major and a Tone minor, which we nominate a Schism. 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony iv. 64 If A to B, be as 5 to 4, they sound a Ditone, or Third Major. 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony iv. 66 4/ 5 sound a Third Major,..3/ 5 a Sixth Major. 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vi. 150 In Diatonic Music, there is but one Sort of Hemitone..called Hemitone Major; whose Ration is 16 to 15... There are two Sorts of Tones; viz. Major, and Minor. 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vi. 185 7th. Major..15 to 8. 1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 298 He makes great Ado about dividing Tones Major, Tones Minor, Dieses and Commas, with the Quantities of them. 1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 772 He..affirming..that the Dorian mode answered exactly to our A-mi-la with a minor third, and the Phrygian to our A-mi-la with a major third. 1806 J. W. Callcott Musical Gram. ii. i. 98 The Major Second..does not consist of two equal parts. 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 242/2 The pertinacity with which professors adhere to the expression perfect fifth and perfect fourth, and abhor the term major fifth and major fourth. 1900 Grove's Dict. Music II. 200/2 The term ‘major’ is also used in a theoretical sense of tones, to distinguish the interval of a tone which has the ratio 9:8 from that which has the ratio 10:9, which is called a minor tone. For example, in the key of C, C–D is a major tone and D–E a minor one, and the difference between them is a comma. 1939 Scrutiny 7 iv. 398 The vocal descriptions (by means of leaps of major sevenths, quarter tones, shouts, croaks and glissandi)..are open to the same criticism. 1993 M. Kennedy Britten (rev. ed.) xxii. 186 The work's Urtmotiv , a minor-within-major third heard in the opening bars. < as lemmas |
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