Semitones is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 391 anagrams from letters in semitones (eeimnosst).
First recorded in 1600-10; semi- + tone
A diesis is a quarter tone; hence in a semitone there are included two dieses.
Paganini again directs the violin to be tuned a semitone higher, writing the solo part in D, and the accompaniment in E flat.
Paganini wrote the solo part of his first concerto in D (tuning his violin a semitone higher), and the orchestral parts in E flat.
From the sublime to the arabesque is but a semitone in his antic mind.
The piece is in the key of E flat, and the violin is to be tuned a semitone higher, the soloist playing in D.
The solo violin is tuned a semitone higher, and the part is in D, while the orchestra plays in E flat.
It would be unpardonable not to know how to distinguish or at least to sound a semitone.
For this the violin is tuned a semitone higher, the solo being played in A, and the accompaniment in B flat.
The normal ear has such a range as to give about 33 rods to the semitone.
Now, as to Paganini's tuning his instrument a semitone higher than the ordinary pitch.
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