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To summarize: We may set up either two series of third-tones, with an interval of a semitone between the series; or, the usual semitonic series thrice repeated at the interval of one-third of a tone.

From Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music by Busoni, Ferruccio

When we start this series of intervals on some other degree of our semitonic ladder, we obtain a new key, and a “foreign” one, at that!

From Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music by Busoni, Ferruccio

Its disadvantages are evident, decided, and unquestionable: The lack of sustained tone, and the pitiless, unyielding adjustment of the inalterable semitonic scale.

From Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music by Busoni, Ferruccio