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semitone
Sign in to saveIn Western music theory, a semitone (also called a half step or half tone) is one of two parts into which a whole tone is divided. Semitones appear as the smallest steps in chromatic scales (which divide the octave into twelve semitones), arising on keyboards between the pitches of two adjacent keys. For example, C is adjacent to D; the interval between them is a semitone. Semitones are among the most dissonant intervals when sounded harmonically.
Key facts
- Musical interval.main_interval_name
- Minor second
- Musical interval.inverse
- Major seventh
- Musical interval.abbreviation
- m2
- Musical interval.semitones
- 1
- Musical interval.interval_class
- 1
- Musical interval.just_interval
- 256:243, 16:15, 27:25
- Musical interval.cents_equal_temperament
- 100.0
- Musical interval.cents_just_intonation
- 90.2, 111.7, 133.2
- Interval.main_interval_name
- Augmented unison
- Interval.inverse
- Diminished octave
- Interval.other_names
- Chromatic semitone, minor semitone
- Interval.abbreviation
- A1
- Interval.semitones
- 1
- Interval.interval_class
- 1
- Interval.just_interval
- 2187:2048, 25:24
- Interval.cents_equal_temperament
- 100
- Interval.cents_just_intonation
- 114, 71
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- Minor second
- Augmented unison
- Diminished unison
- History
- Semitones in different tunings
- Pythagorean tuning
- Meantone temperament
- Equal temperament
- Well temperament
- 5-limit just intonation {{anchor|Just intonation}}
- Extended just intonation
- Other equal temperaments
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
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|width=|caption= A diatonic semitone, or minor second }}