whole tone in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for whole tone in the English»Italian Dictionary

Translations for whole tone in the Italian»English Dictionary

Translations for whole tone in the English»Italian Dictionary

I.whole [Brit həʊl, Am hoʊl] ADJ

1. whole:

II.whole [Brit həʊl, Am hoʊl] ADV

III.whole [Brit həʊl, Am hoʊl] N

I.tone [Brit təʊn, Am toʊn] N

II.tone [Brit təʊn, Am toʊn] VB trans

III.also tone in VB intr (blend)

whole tone in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for whole tone in the English»Italian Dictionary

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To the right, the first scale is a whole tone scale, while the second and third scales are diatonic scales.
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If the interval was a minor third, about one whole tone from the bottom, genus chromatic.
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It also has the desirable property of making the semitone exactly one-half of a whole tone.
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Two secors (233.4) approximate an 8:7 interval (231.17), a septimal whole tone.
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The pitches are arranged so that in general, moving one section away from the player's body corresponds to a transposition of a whole tone upwards.
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Notice that in these tuning systems, a third kind of whole tone, even wider than the major tone, exists.
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In it, semitones alternate with whole tones, and the harmonic functions are comparable to those of the whole-tone scale.
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Each note within a group is separated by a whole tone, and each group is separated by a semitone.
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In this set of sonatas, he used prominent characteristics of early 20th century music, such as whole tone scales, dissonances, and quarter tones.
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An octave species was then built upon two of these tetrachords separated by a whole tone.
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