Login
Ideas
Quotes
Lessons
Words
Username
Password
Login
Cancel
Forgot
password?
Search:
Dictionary
All Posts
Search
Search
Store Your Knowledge at the Brain Bank!
Login
/
Register - It's free!
Username
Password
Login
Cancel
Forgot
password?
half step
Definition
Cancel
Bank This Word!
My Lists
Login to Create a List
Register for Free!
Keep Public?
half step
noun
(half step)
a walking step of 15 inches or in double time of 18 inches
half step
noun
(half step)
a musical interval (such as E-F or B-C) equivalent to 1/12 of an octave —called also semitone
Words Related to
half step
!
semitone
,
mixolydian mode
,
minor scale
,
whole step
,
musical interval
,
sesquitone
,
whole tone
,
octave
,
half tone
,
middle c
,
diatonic scale
,
plagal cadence
,
mixolydian
,
chromatic scale
,
key signature
,
arpeggio
,
tierce de picardie
,
microtone
,
diatonic
,
meride
,
major scale
,
heptameride
,
enharmonic
,
picardy third
,
trichord
,
bichord
,
glissando
,
disdiapason
,
seventh chord
,
ditone
,
chord
,
tetrachord
,
musical scale
,
pentatonic
,
subsemitone
,
pentatonic scale
,
vox angelica
,
demisemiquaver
,
eighth note
,
polychord
,
hemidemisemiquaver
,
double flat
,
strum
,
musical note
,
heptachord
,
harmonic series
,
semiquaver
,
chromatically
,
heckelphone
,
tridiapason
,
double sharp
,
equisonance
,
syncopation
,
whole note
,
f clef
,
minor key
,
trill
,
tonality
,
pedal point
,
faburden
,
organ stop
,
homotonous
,
bass clef
,
octachord
,
harmonic
,
syncopate
,
arpeggiation
,
pentachord
,
supertonic
,
tone of voice
,
apotome
,
clarichord
,
cantus firmus
,
staccato
,
colorature
,
pizzicato
,
major key
,
ostinato
,
intonation
,
chordal
,
melody
,
tenor clef
,
tritone
,
viola clef
,
subdominant
,
tune
,
orpharion
,
dissonant
,
bass fiddle
,
syntony
,
xylorimba
,
interval
,
musical time
,
vibrato
,
quaver
,
quarter note
,
countermelody
,
plagal
,
open interval
,
portamento
,
half step
Examples by Brain Bank Users