quarter tone

quarter tone

n

(Music, other) music a quarter of a whole tone; a pitch interval corresponding to 50 cents measured on the well-tempered scale

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quar′ter tone`

n.

a musical interval equal to half a semitone.

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quarter tone - half of a semitone quarter-tone musical interval, interval - the difference in pitch between two notes

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