"Semitonic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... single word; as, for example, "Other friends have flown before; on the morrow HE will leave me." At times diction may assume what may be called a pathetic drift, and for the suitable interpretation of this drift semitonic intervals may be used, and the mode of progression cease for a space to be diatonic and become semitonic, or ...
— The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 • Ministry of Education |
