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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 solo violin enters playing the tritone, which was known as the diabolus in musica ("the Devil in music") during the Medieval and Baroque eras, consisting of an A and an E ♭ —in an example of scordatura tuning, the violinist's E string has actually been tuned down to an E ♭ to create the dissonant tritone.
The Violin Sonata in G minor, GT 2.g05; B.g5, more familiarly known as the Devil's Trill Sonata (Italian: Il trillo del diavolo), is a work for solo violin (with figured bass accompaniment) by Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770). It is the composer's best-known composition, notable for its technically difficult passages.
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.
It is definantly notable that a straight tritone is the main riff of the song "black sabbtah" by the epnonymous band, and that metal music in general is based around the tritone and its uses in the pentatonic scale and to a lower extent the blues scale. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.163.3.121 06:22, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
According to AllMusic's Steve Huey, in the song Black Sabbath extracted the so-called "blue note" from the standard pentatonic blues scale and developed a heavy metal riff. [7] The main riff is a G5 power chord followed by an octave into a tritone away from the chord's root. The riff is fairly simple, highlighting the dissonant and dark sound ...
Peter, a music major, eventually surmises that that sound of the cicadas combined with certain musical notes can create what is known as the "Devil's tritone," a frequency that has the ability to drive some people insane. Evelyn suggests that the metal plate in Leudke's head could amplify these sounds, which would become overpowering, a ...