In transcribing the Greek notes into our notation, the absolute pitch cannot be represented; the relative positions of the semitones are alone determined.
No accidental semitones were possible with this instrument, unless the strings were shortened by the player's fingers.
Here begins the Examination of the Semitones Major and Minor, which he promised in ยง 15.
He ought to make him hit the Semitones according to the true Rules.
It is necessary to understand the Sol-Fa-ing, and its Rules, which shew where the two Semitones lie in each Octave, Pl.
These are all Tones Major and Minor, and Semitones Major.
Because they are all Semitones Minor, which may be known by the abovementioned Rule, of their not changing Name, Line, nor Space.
Footnote 1: We may think of this as a scale in which the semitones are considerably smaller, i.
The remaining scale, called Rahawi, does not fall under any species, since the semitones are between the Third and Fourth, and again between the Fifth and Sixth.
Aristoxenus--of an older kind of Enharmonic, in which the semitones had not yet been divided into quarter-tones.
Aristides Quintilianus, who gives a scale of two octaves, one divided into twenty-four dieses, the next into twelve semitones (De Mus.
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.
The compass of the modern flute is three octaves with chromatic semitones from [notes] to [notes].
There are eleven holes mathematically placed in the tube which give the semitones of the scale; there are no keys.
All othersemitones were obtained by what is known as cross fingering (Fr.
Music: 7--Beginning on C5 and holding each note for two beats, go down by semitones until A4 flat is reached and held for four beats.
Music: 6--Beginning on C4 and holding each note for two beats, go up by semitones until E4 is reached and held for four beats.
The F below the bass clef is the true lowest note, the other seven semitones descending to the B flat being obtained by holes and keys in the long joint and bell.
But there is no apparent reason for giving up thesemitones for the sake of this new system.
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 class of mistake I refer to is that which confuses the place of the semitones in the scale.
And from one point of view this is true, but to the Tonic Sol-faist the semitones always come in the same places, i.
The note is, therefore, practically divided into two semitones of four commas and a half.
Try the reverse, that is, divide the interval B sharp-C into seven commas on the semitones A flat-G; it will be unendurable.
The discs for the semitones have the sharp on one side and the flat on the other, e.
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 semitonesrespectively from it.
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.
What is called lichanos in the enharmonic is at the interval of a semitone from hypate; but when shifted to the chromatic, it goes two semitones away; and in the diatonic it is at an interval of three semitones from hypate.
In the chromatic there are two semitones arranged in succession, and the third interval is a tone and a half.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "semitones" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
