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Definition of Quarter-tone
1. Noun. Half of a semitone.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quarter-tone
Literary usage of Quarter-tone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Critical and Historical Essays: Lectures Delivered at Columbia University by Edward MacDowell (1912)
"... tetrachord run quarter-tone, quarter-tone, two tones. Besides this, even in
the diatonic, the Greeks used what they called soft intervals; for example, ..."
2. Critical and Historical Essays: Lectures Delivered at Columbia University by Edward MacDowell (1912)
"... tetrachord run quarter-tone, quarter-tone, two tones. Besides this, even in
the diatonic, the Greeks used what they called soft intervals; for example, ..."
3. Aristoxenou Harmonika stoicheia =: The harmonics of Aristoxenus by Aristoxenus, Αριστόξενος, Henry Stewart Macran (1902)
"Much wonder and admiration has been wasted on the Enharmonic scale by persons
who have missed the true reason for the disappearance of the quarter-tone from ..."
4. Progressive Music Lessons: A Course of Instruction Prepared for the Use of by George Brace Loomis (1875)
"A fourth, or quarter tone. What may we call its representative instead of short
note? ... Observe that the terras, quarter tone, half tone, <fec.. are only ..."
5. American Primitive Music: With Especial Attention to the Songs of the Ojibways by Frederick Russell Burton (1909)
"The quarter-tone is a loose expression for a division of the octave into more
and, therefore, smaller intervals than are recognized in the ..."
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