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  2. Tritone - Wikipedia

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    For instance, the above-mentioned interval F–B is the only tritone formed from the notes of the C major scale. More broadly, a tritone is also commonly defined as any interval with a width of three whole tones (spanning six semitones in the chromatic scale), regardless of scale degrees. According to this definition, a diatonic scale contains ...

  3. Interval recognition - Wikipedia

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    Interval recognition, the ability to name and reproduce musical intervals, is an important part of ear training, music transcription, musical intonation and sight-reading. Reference songs [ edit ]

  4. List of chord progressions - Wikipedia

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    ii–V–I with tritone substitution (♭ II7 instead of V7) ii– ♭ II –I: 3: Major ii-V-I with ♭ III + as dominant substitute: ii– ♭ III + –I: 3: Mix. vii o 7 /V–V–I (common in ragtime) vii o 7 /V–V–I: 3: Major Andalusian cadence: iv–III– ♭ II–I: 4: PD Backdoor progression (front door is V7) ii– ♭ VII I: 3 ...

  5. Maria (West Side Story song) - Wikipedia

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    The song was originally composed in E-flat major (following an 8-bar introduction in B major). In the 1961 and 2021 film adaptations, both introduction and chorus were lowered by a whole step. The song is widely known for its use of the melodic interval of a tritone in the main theme. This is also a major motif throughout the other songs in the ...

  6. Augmented-fourths tuning - Wikipedia

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    Because augmented fourths are alternatively called "tritones" ("tri-tones") or "diminished fifths", augmented-fourths tuning is also called tritone tuning or diminished-fifths tuning. The standard guitar-tuning E-A-d-g-b'-e' interjects exactly one major third amid four perfect fourths for the intervals between its successive open strings. In ...

  7. Purple Haze - Wikipedia

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    "Purple Haze" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and released as the second single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on March 17, 1967, in the United Kingdom. The song features his inventive guitar playing, which uses the signature Hendrix chord and a mix of blues and

  8. Major fourth and minor fifth - Wikipedia

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    In music, the major fourth and minor fifth, also known as the paramajor fourth and paraminor fifth, are intervals from the quarter-tone scale, named by Ivan Wyschnegradsky to describe the tones surrounding the tritone (F ♯ /G ♭) found in the more familiar twelve-tone scale, [1] as shown in the table below:

  9. Black Sabbath (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Black Sabbath" is a song by the English heavy metal band of the same name, written in 1969 and released on their eponymous debut album in 1970. In the same year, the song appeared as an A-side on a four-track 12-inch single, with "The Wizard" also on the A-side and "Evil Woman" and "Sleeping Village" on the B-side, on the Philips Records label Vertigo.