Melodies are often semi-sung chants, or rely heavily on repeated notes and small step and half-step intervals.
He turned around with incredible speed and took a half-step in our direction.
Johnnie took a half-step forward, when Hull pressed him back.
He makes a half-step towards the burly mass of flesh, still shaking with laughter.
We have also just seen that in order to represent the trot the marcher at the back had to anticipate by a half-step.
It is necessary to adopt here another method of looking at it, and to regard the preceding as being but a half-step.
The steel robot took a half-step toward him, and Burckhardt involuntarily checked his stride.
To the ear of the author the pitch varies through an interval somewhat less than a half-step.
The interval between the two tones may therefore be either a half-step or a whole-step.
The half-step is usually defined as "the smallest usable interval between two tones."
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