Lexicographical Neighbors of Semitonically
Literary usage of Semitonically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Musical World (1856)
"This, however, is short-breathed ; and some more vague progressions (the bass
descending semitonically &c.) of chords lead us back to the original subject, ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"... lie again beyond the 'harmony-strings' are tuned, roughly speaking, in octaves
with them, adding some notes tuned semitonically in the extreme bass. ..."
3. Six Lectures on Harmony: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain by George Alexander Macfarren (1882)
"Its exceptionality consists, I., in their comprising chromatic notes, which must
always be quitted semitonically, save when, as was explained and ..."
4. Six Lectures on Harmony: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain by George Alexander Macfarren (1877)
"Its exceptionality consists, I., in their comprising chromatic notes, which must
always be quitted semitonically, save when, as was explained and ..."
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