Dec 30, 2016 · I'm interested in learning more of the Devil's interval: how it originated, some of its uses and what exactly about the interval of a diminished fifth makes it sound ominous?

Jan 11, 2022 · A tritone is exactly in the center of my 12 notes. Stacking two tritones leads to an octave. Adding 1 + 0.5 + 0.5 leads me to the next octave as well. So why are tritones and fifths not the …

Dec 22, 2015 · A tritone is simply an interval of three tones. So we can say that a note an interval of a tritone above the root could have the same frequency as a 'blue note' played between the fourth and …

Jan 27, 2023 · A tritone is in fact an interval of three whole tones, so an augmented 4th. A diminished fifth is not technically a true tritone (although it is the complementing interval of a true tritone), but …

Apr 25, 2015 · Generally, in Blues and jazz, the oft-used tritone (C to F#/Gb) is referred to as a b5. Why is this a better term than #4? In the Blues scale, there will always be two notes of the same name, …

I have heard that modulating by diminished fifth/tritone is the hardest of all modulations. Interestingly my non-musician husband has just composed a tune with a smooth tritone modulation (ie. fro...

Mar 5, 2019 · A related question that I think falls into the same umbrella: can tritone substitution be applied to diminished and half-diminished 7th chords? If so, must they have dominant functions, or …

Both are a tritone appart, both sound the same. How can we differentiate when an interval is an augmented fourth or a diminished fifth? Context: In voice leading we learn that when the spelling o...

Apr 29, 2017 · Are you maybe getting confused by the fact that, nowadays, we use the term "tritone" for both augmented fourths and diminished fifths? In the Middle Ages and renaissance, …

Feb 22, 2019 · The is an acoustic difficulty in non-equal-temperament tunings in representation of the interval. A tritone would be 729/512 if using three C-D intervals. This is pretty far from the Square …