| 单词 | minor semitone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasminor semitone a. Originally: (of an interval) that is the smaller, by a small fraction, of two differently derived versions of the same interval, as minor tone, minor semitone, minor third, etc. (now historical). Now usually: (of an interval) smaller by a semitone than the correlative major interval; chiefly in minor third, minor sixth, minor seventh (also minor second; occasionally minor fourth, minor fifth, now usually called diminished). Hence also: designating a note separated by a minor interval from the named note.In early use frequently as postmodifier. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [adjective] > minor flat1597 lesser1610 minor1653 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. 1677 Ld. Guildford Philos. Ess. Musick 27 Neither Tone Major nor Tone Minor can be divided into sixteenths. 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony iv. 64 If A to B [sc. lengths of strings], be as 6 to 5, they sound a Trihemitone, or Third Minor. 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony iv. 66 4/ 5 sound a Third Major,..5/ 8 a Sixth Minor. 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vi. 150 There are two Sorts of Tones; viz. Major, and Minor... Tone Minor (10 to 9)..is the Difference between Third Minor and Fourth. 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vi. 185 7th. Minor..9 to 5. 1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 298 He [sc. Holder] makes great Ado about dividing Tones Major, Tones Minor, Dieses and Commas, with the Quantities of them. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Interval Trihemitone of the Greek Scale, or deficient third Minor, 32/27,..Third Minor, 6/5,..Trihemitone Major, 4096/3375. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 511 (note) Thus far we have only treated of fifths, fourths, thirds major and minor, in ascending. 1855 R. Browning Lovers' Quarrel xviii We shall have the word In a minor third There is none but the cuckoo knows. 1878 W. H. Stone Sci. Basis Music v. §83 25/ 24 = Minor Semitone. ?1905 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 434/2 There is also a flute in E♭..which transposes a minor third higher. 1983 Peter Grimes; Gloriana (Eng. National Opera Guide) (BNC) 23 There is no mistaking..the thrill of fear in his fugue theme ‘Now the flood tide’, with its opening minor second. 1994 Keyboard Player Sept. 38/1 The third..will be either a major third or a minor third depending whether the chord that you're accompanying has a major or minor tonality. < as lemmas |
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