Lexicographical Neighbors of Semitonal
Literary usage of Semitonal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Plainsong: Compiled from a Series of Lectures Delivered by Henry Bremridge Briggs (1895)
"The reason of this is not very far to seek, for from the point of view of melody
a semitonal close is very indeterminate and unsatisfying. ..."
2. The New Music Review and Church Music Review by American Guild of Organists (1906)
"The semitonal modulation to B minor appears at the seventh measure. The "Appel"
returns at the end. Variation IV, F sharp major, 5-4. ..."
3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"The reason for this semitonal beginning of the keyboard is obscure unless the
lowest keys were used for ' short octave ' measure, an idea which suggested ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"An inscription on the keyboard states that it formed part of the original organ,
which had the semitonal arrangement of keys.7 berg, Cologne Cathedral, ..."
5. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1864)
"... tenacious of their old customs and habits than the Arabs, and it is to the
last degree improbable that they would ever have abandoned a semitonal scale, ..."
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