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Quarter tone   /kwˈɔrtər toʊn/   Listen
Quarter tone

noun
1.
Half of a semitone.  Synonym: quarter-tone.





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"Quarter tone" Quotes from Famous Books



... motive is repeated in F major, after which some passage work for the piano and pianola, the former tuned a quarter tone lower than the latter and played by three performers, leads directly into the quadruple theme of the sulphur-yellow truth, mentioned above. It is first given out by two oboes divided, a single English horn, two bassoons in unison, and four trombones in unison. ...
— A Book of Burlesques • H. L. Mencken


Words linked to "Quarter tone" :   interval, musical interval, quarter-tone


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