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单词 half step
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Definition of half step in English:

half step

noun
North American Music
  • The smallest interval used in classical Western music, equal to a twelfth of an octave or half a tone.

    the music rises a half step and goes on doing what it did before
    Also called semitone
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For example, when I first used MusicEase, I was dismayed to hear that the pitch emanating out of my computer was about a half step flat.
    • Andreas Werckmeister was a musician and music theorist who invented the equal tempered scale - the octave divided into 12 equal half steps - in 1685.
    • Remind the student that in major keys, the half steps will occur between degrees three and four and degrees seven and eight.
    • For example, the sight-singing student who depends upon intervallic content alone in rendering pitches will view the passage C-D-E-F as two whole steps followed by a half step.
    • Take the opportunity to point out that a perfect fifth - when counting either direction in the alphabet - contains seven half steps, avoiding confusion between B and F-sharp, or B-flat and F.

Definition of half step in US English:

half step

nounˈhæf ˌstɛpˈhaf ˌstep
North American Music
  • The smallest interval used in classical Western music, equal to a twelfth of an octave or half a tone.

    the music rises a half step and goes on doing what it did before
    Also called semitone
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Andreas Werckmeister was a musician and music theorist who invented the equal tempered scale - the octave divided into 12 equal half steps - in 1685.
    • For example, when I first used MusicEase, I was dismayed to hear that the pitch emanating out of my computer was about a half step flat.
    • For example, the sight-singing student who depends upon intervallic content alone in rendering pitches will view the passage C-D-E-F as two whole steps followed by a half step.
    • Remind the student that in major keys, the half steps will occur between degrees three and four and degrees seven and eight.
    • Take the opportunity to point out that a perfect fifth - when counting either direction in the alphabet - contains seven half steps, avoiding confusion between B and F-sharp, or B-flat and F.
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