puolisävelaskeliin
Puolisävelaskeliin, often translated as semitones or half steps, refers to the smallest interval in Western music. It is the distance between two adjacent keys on a piano, whether they are white to black or black to white. In a musical scale, a semitone represents the fundamental unit of pitch difference. For example, the interval between C and C# (or Db) is a semitone, as is the interval between E and F, or B and C.
The concept of semitones is crucial for understanding musical harmony, melody, and tuning systems. Scales are
In music theory, semitones are often notated using sharps (#) to raise a note by a semitone or
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