mi|cro|tone

mi|cro|tone
mi|cro|tone «MY kruh TOHN», noun.
Music. an interval smaller than a semitone: »

The composer's restless quest for new forms of expression led him to forecast microtones and electronic music and much else long before these things descended on us (Sunday Times).


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