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In music theory, the tritone is defined as a musical interval spanning three adjacent whole tones (six semitones). [1] For instance, the interval from F up to the B above it (in short, F–B) is a tritone as it can be decomposed into the three adjacent whole tones F–G, G–A, and A–B.
Diabolus in Musica is a Latin term for "The Devil in Music" or tritone.Medieval musical rules did not allow this particular dissonance. [11] According to one mythology, the interval was considered sexual and would bring out the devil; Slayer vocalist and bassist Tom Araya jokingly said that people were executed for writing and using the interval.
The first theme also heavily uses the tritone (augmented 4th or diminished 5th); this interval was known as the Devil's interval (or "Devil in music") and further reinforces the hellish imagery. The second theme is a beatific chorale in F-sharp major , derived from the first, which represents the joy of those in Heaven. [ 6 ]
Holy Heathens and the Old Green Man is a 2006 album by English folk group Waterson:Carthy, also featuring the vocal group The Devil's Interval, released on Topic Records. [1] It is a collection of seasonal songs, most having a Christian flavour ("Diadem" is unique in that it has phrases which suggest that the figure being adored is a Green Man ...
Liszt begins and ends the work with an unresolved tritone, a musical interval famous as representing the devil in music, and the music overall is more violently expressive than both its predecessor and Camille Saint-Saëns' Danse macabre, which Liszt had transcribed a few years earlier. [7]
English harmony singing group The Devil's Interval recorded "Silver Dagger" for their 2006 album Blood and Honey. [29] Irish-American Celtic group Solas recorded it for their 2006 album Reunion: A Decade of Solas. The Seldom Scene recorded this song on their 2007 album Scenechronized.
The Devil Wears Prada: A New Musical — based on the 2006 movie and Lauren Weisberger’s book — is heading to London’s West End in fall 2024. The production first opened in Chicago in 2022 ...
As polyphony became more complex, notes other than B required alteration to avoid undesirable harmonic or melodic intervals (especially the augmented fourth, or tritone, that music theory writers referred to as diabolus in musica, i.e., "the devil in music"). Nowadays "ficta" is used loosely to describe any such un-notated accidentals.