| 单词 | whole tone |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhole tone whole tone n. Music a melodic interval (interval n. 5) equal to two semitones, the largest interval in the ordinary scales; a major second; cf. whole note n. (a), tone n. 4a. [Probably after post-classical Latin tonus integer and tonus totus (both 6th cent. in Boethius). Compare French ton entier (c1400 in Middle French).] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > tone whole note1574 second1597 tone1609 whole tone1636 note1762 deuce1829 1636 C. Butler Princ. Musik i. ii. 12 Whereas dhe rest ar all whole tones. 1755 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. IV. 2849/2 A redundant second, composed of a whole tone, and a minor semitone. 1853 A. H. Wehrhan tr. A. B. Marx Universal School Music v. 35 A whole tone consists of two sounds belonging to two adjacent degrees, between which there is one intermediate sound... Thus, c and d form a whole tone, for they belong to two adjacent degrees, whilst there is another sound, c sharp or d flat, between them. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! i. 26 The ninths and elevenths and whole-tone chords that form the stock-in-trade of Debussy's early mannered style. 2010 R. L. Smith Appalachian Dulcimer Trad. (ed. 2) i. 6 It [sc. the dulcimer] is fretted in a pattern of whole tones and halftones that matches the pattern of whole tones and halftones that constitutes the major scale. < as lemmas |
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