Definition of whole step in US English:
whole step
nounˌhōl ˈstepˌhoʊl ˈstɛp
Music An interval of a (whole) tone.
Example sentencesExamples
- The distance from Do to Re, for instance, should always be a whole step; the distance from Do to Mi a major third and so forth.
- A Jazz Symphony structurally comes down to two notes, a whole step apart.
- In this form, the seven intervals are of two sizes, the whole tone (or whole step) and the semitone (or half-step).
- The hook itself is formed by cut-up bits of MIA's voice, consisting of one measure staying on the tonic followed by half a measure dropping a whole step to a diminished (?) seventh.
- For example, the sight-singing student will view the passage C-D-E-F as two whole steps followed by a half step.