The tritone is a restless interval, classed as a dissonance in Western music from the early Middle Ages through to the end of the common practice period. This interval was frequently avoided in medieval ecclesiastical singing because of its dissonant quality.

2018年6月18日 · A tritone is an interval made up of three tones, or six semitones. In each diatonic scale (or the most basic scale of a key) there is only one tritone, and it occurs between the fourth and seventh degrees of the scale, so in a C major scale this would be between F and B.

2017年10月31日 · In music theory, the tritone is an interval of three whole steps that can sound unresolved and creepy. Over time, the sound has wound up in jazz, rock and even Broadway musicals.

A tritone is a musical interval that spans three whole steps or six half steps. Imagine jumping across the musical scale, skipping a few steps in between, and landing on what seems like the one wrong note you want to avoid.

2022年7月25日 · What is a tritone? The tritone is a musical interval that’s composed of two notes that are six semitones, or three adjacent whole tones, apart. Within a major scale, there’s only one instance where a tritone is formed diatonically: between the seventh and fourth scale degrees (ex. B and F form a tritone in the key of C major).

2024年2月19日 · When two notes are played at the same time, the distance between them is called an interval. If the notes are really close together, the interval is small, and if the notes are far apart, then the interval is larger.

A tritone is an interval of 3 tones (whole steps) or 6 semitones (half steps) that sounds particularly dissonant. It can be either expressed as the interval of an augmented 4th or a diminished 5th depending on the context.

2023年8月3日 · A tritone is a musical interval of 3 whole steps or 6 semitones between two notes. At some point the tritone developed a reputation as an evil, discordant sound. You’ll often hear it repeated that the Catholic church considered the tritone so malicious that it was banned in musical compositions.

Tritone, in music, the interval encompassed by three consecutive whole steps, as for instance the distance from F to B (the whole steps F–G, G–A, and A–B). In semitone notation, the tritone is composed of six semitones; thus it divides the octave symmetrically in equal halves.

2024年5月6日 · Tritones are unique musical intervals that span across three adjacent whole tones (six semitones), cutting an octave in half. Known as the “Devil’s Interval” or “diabolus in musica,” a tritone is either an augmented fourth or a diminished fifth, depending on its placement in a …