semitonal

The set is a specific ordering of all twelve notes of the semitonal scale.

The latter two groups are used in such a way that, vertically, there are semitonal conflicts at almost every moment.

The set in any of its four transformations may be started upon any degree of the semitonal scale.

Thus, C major and E minor triads are close by virtue of requiring only a single semitonal shift to move from one to the other.

This coda plays with the semitonal relationship between B-flat and B-natural, and briefly returns to the first theme before dying away.

The semitonal generator gives rise to the chromatic circle while the perfect fifth gives rise to the circle of fifths.

Slow-moving, semitonal, sparsely expressive lines in the trio echo the chamber style Shostakovich developed in the early quartets and Second Piano Trio.

Lees' music is rhythmically active, with frequently changing accents and meter even in his early works, and is known for its semitonal inflections in melody and harmony.

Inevitably, melodies often contain more leaps than in conventional music, or there may be a good deal of semitonal movement or inversions of semitones to create such intervals as 7ths and minor 9ths.

The ostentatious dissonances of its opening almost have an antique flavour, caused by the collision of semitonal ascents and descents, and this strongly suggests the opening subject of the first movement, so surprisingly isolated there."

In the Qui tollis at bar 120 (López-Calo edition) the second soprano enters on an unprepared 9th chord causing a gratuitous semitonal dissonance with a b flat, a, f, d and low g sounding simultaneously on the words miserere nobis.

As harmony made by grouping notes in perfect fourths will inevitably eliminate thirds, the result sounds very different from conventional harmony; and as dominant-tonic chords cannot be formed, and there is no semitonal leading-note effect, the characteristic progressions of diatonicism are quite absent.

After six bars it settles down in the vicinity of middle C. Running up to an acid semitonal acciaccatura in both hands, the piano goes over into a sprint of octave-chords and single notes, jumping manically up and down the keyboard twice a bar.

According to Jim Samson, "the most distinctive features of Liszt's late style are present in this short work-the avoidance of a conventional cadential structure, the importance of semitonal movement, the use of the augmented triad as the central harmonic unit and of parallelism as a principal means of progression."

Phrygian half cadence: a half cadence from iv to V in minor, so named because the semitonal motion in the bass (flat sixth degree to fifth degree) resembles the semitone heard in the II - I of the ancient (fifteenth century) cadence in the Phrygian mode.