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Musical interval
theory, a tritone is a musical interval spanning three whole tones. For instance, the interval from F to the B above it (in short, F–B) is a tritone as it
Tritone
Topics referred to by the same term
tritone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tritone may refer to: Tritone (music), or augmented fourth, a dissonant interval of two pitches Tritone (telephony)
Tritone_(disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up tritones in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tritones may refer to: Tritones (mythology) Triton (mythology) Daimones of the sea, see daemon (classical
Tritones
Music theory concept
The tritone substitution is a common chord substitution found in both jazz and classical music. Where jazz is concerned, it was the precursor to more
Tritone_substitution
Auditory illusion
The tritone paradox is an auditory illusion in which a sequentially played pair of Shepard tones separated by an interval of a tritone, or half octave
Tritone_paradox
Fountain in Rome
Fontana del Tritone (Triton Fountain) is a seventeenth-century fountain in Rome, by the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Commissioned by his patron
Fontana_del_Tritone,_Rome
Superimposition of one contrasting colour halftone over another color halftone
color combinations used. Due to recent advances in technology, duotones, tritones, and quadtones can be easily created using image manipulation programs
Duotone
Building in Sorrento, Italy
Villa Tritone (also known as Villa Astor) is a villa located in Sorrento, Italy. The villa is believed to date back to the 16th century when the Labonia
Villa_Tritone
septimal tritone is a tritone (about one half of an octave) that involves the factor seven. There are two that are inverses. The lesser septimal tritone (also
Septimal_tritone
Church in Rome, Italy
Santa Maria Odigitria al Tritone ("Saint Mary Hodegetria at the Via Tritone"), sometimes Santa Maria dei Siciliani ("Saint Mary of Sicilians") or Santa
Santa Maria Odigitria al Tritone
Santa_Maria_Odigitria_al_Tritone
Scale with six pitches
pentatonic scale and an additional flat 5th scale degree: C E♭ F G♭ G B♭ C. The tritone scale, C D♭ E G♭ G(♮) B♭,[unreliable source?] is enharmonically equivalent
Hexatonic_scale
Fountain in Trapani
Fontana del Tritone (English: Triton's Fountain) is a monumental fountain in Trapani, Sicily. Its large octagonal basin was constructed in 1890 to mark
Fontana_del_Tritone_(Trapani)
Auditory illusion
pair of Shepard tones separated by an interval of a tritone (half an octave) produces the tritone paradox. Shepard had predicted that the two tones would
Shepard_tone
1970 song by Black Sabbath
octave into a tritone away from the chord's root. The riff is fairly simple, highlighting the dissonant and dark sound of the tritone against a stagnant
Black_Sabbath_(song)
Luxury wooden speedboat
and Special) ran from 1962 until 1996. The hull was based on the Riva Tritone, an earlier model speedboat by Riva, which in turn was inspired by the
Riva_Aquarama
Chordal accompaniment to a line or melody
technique known as tritone substitution. In tritone substitution, a dominant chord is replaced by another dominant chord a tritone above its tonic. This
Harmonization
of commonly used chord progressions in music. R., Ken (2012). DOG EAR Tritone Substitution for Jazz Guitar, Amazon Digital Services, Inc., ASIN: B008FRWNIW
List_of_chord_progressions
System of music analysis
show how chords and tones related by the intervals of a minor third and tritone can function as tonal substitutes for one another, and do so in many of
Axis_system
Cappella group
The Tritones are an a cappella co-ed group from the University of California, San Diego. The group was founded in 1996 and is the first of nine a cappella
The_Tritones
Series of four notes separated by three intervals
a particular tuning system. Three modal patterns are possible: and the tritone: The name comes from tetra (from Greek—"four of something") and chord (from
Tetrachord
Polytonal device in the works of Igor Stravinsky
in later compositions. It consists of two major triads separated by a tritone; when sounded together, the chords clash "horribly with each other", producing
Petrushka_chord
Ten note musical scale
tritone scale (set 10-6) is a decatonic scale consisting of four semitones, a whole tone, four semitones, and a whole tone (four semitones a tritone apart):
Decatonic_scale
Three-beep signal indicating a call did not go through correctly
In telephony, a special information tone (SIT) is an in-band international standard call progress tone consisting of three rising tones indicating a call
Special_information_tone
Concept in jazz music
dominant (tritone substitution). Harmonically, ♭II7 functions exactly as V7/I does, because the two chords enharmonically contain the same tritone, which
Turnaround_(music)
Musical chord
and the major third combined form a diminished fifth, also known as a tritone. The clashing sound produced by playing these two notes together gives
Dominant_seventh_chord
Chord that connects the notes of two diatonic chords
Ear-Training, p.158. Silver, Burdett & Company. R., Ken (2012). DOG EAR Tritone Substitution for Jazz Guitar, Amazon Digital Services, Inc., ASIN: B008FRWNIW
Passing_chord
Italian crime drama television series
Bambinella Massimo De Matteo as Giulio Colombo Susy Del Giudice as Maria Tritone Roberto Giordano as Camarda Veronica D'Elia as Nelide Giovanni Allocca
Inspector_Ricciardi
Musical interval
scale, named by Ivan Wyschnegradsky to describe the tones surrounding the tritone (F♯/G♭) found in the more familiar twelve-tone scale, as shown in the table
Major_fourth_and_minor_fifth
Capital and largest city of Italy
Sisto Quattro Fiumi Quattro Fontane Tartarughe Trevi Fountain Tritons Tritone Other landmarks Altare della Patria (Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of Italy)
Rome
Football club
Tritones Vallarta M Fútbol Club is a Mexican professional football club based in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, that plays in the Liga Premier, the third level
Tritones_Vallarta_M.F.C.
Categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds
sixths Dissonances may include: Dissonance major seconds and minor seventh tritones minor seconds and major sevenths Two notes played simultaneously but with
Consonance_and_dissonance
Musical scale containing no semitones
one or more tritones, while atritonic scales do not contain tritones. A special monotonic relationship exists between semitones and tritones as scales are
Anhemitonic_scale
Technique of using a chord in place of another in a progression of chords
dominant, for example in C: ♯IIo7 = D♯–F♯–A–C♮ ↔ B–D♯–F♯–A = VII7. In a tritone substitution, the substitute chord only differs slightly from the original
Chord_substitution
Type of musical chord
diminished triad was considered dissonant because of the diminished fifth (or tritone). In major scales, a diminished triad occurs only on the seventh scale
Diminished_triad
Type of musical chord
That is, it has the same notes as the dominant seventh flat five chord a tritone away (although they may be spelled differently), so for instance, F♯7♭5
Dominant seventh flat five chord
Dominant_seventh_flat_five_chord
Musical modes with repeating intervals
semitone, minor third, semitone – it has six transpositions, like the tritone, and four modes. Play The fifth mode contains the intervals semitone, major
Mode_of_limited_transposition
American jazz trumpeter (1911–1989)
jazz trumpeter. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, his virtuosic solos exhibiting a departure from the dominant
Roy_Eldridge
Ending of a composition; may take the form of a coda or outro
the chromatic scale into (two) whole tone scales provides the missing tritone of b implied in the previously exclusive partitioning by (three) diminished
Conclusion_(music)
Sequence of frequencies
and 300. When one contrasts this with a dissonant interval such as a tritone (not tempered) with a frequency ratio of 7:5 one gets, for example, 700 − 500 = 200
Harmonic_series_(music)
Ascending or descending sequence of musical tones
tritones is called tritonic (though the expression is also used for any scale with just three notes per octave, whether or not it includes a tritone)
Scale_(music)
are alternatively called "tritones" ("tri-tones") or "diminished fifths", augmented-fourths tuning is also called tritone tuning or diminished-fifths
Augmented-fourths_tuning
Italian department store chain
including two flagship locations in Milan (Piazza del Duomo) and Rome (Via del Tritone). The company was a member of the International Association of Department
La_Rinascente
Musical scale
Scriabin teases the tritone symmetry of the French sixth in his music by alternating transpositions of the Mystic chord a tritone apart, implying the
Octatonic_scale
Division of an octave
(up to octave equivalency) that it shares with 12-EDO is the 600-cent tritone (which functions as both 17:12 and 24:17). On the other hand, 58-EDO has
58_equal_temperament
is also a regular tuning in which the interval between its strings is a tritone (augmented fourth). A cittern tuning, such as C-G-c-g-c'-g'. There are
Repetitive_tuning
Musical tuning system of 53 pitches
still quite closely matched with the highest deviation being the 7 / 5 tritone. The 11th harmonic and intervals involving it are less closely matched
53_equal_temperament
equal to a tritone) of each sonority: p (perfect fourth), m (major third), n (minor third), s (major second), d (minor second), and t (tritone), with superscripts
List_of_set_classes
Polish composer and conductor (1933–2020)
changed, with his first violin concerto focusing on the semitone and the tritone. His choral work Polish Requiem was written in the 1980s and expanded in
Krzysztof_Penderecki
Set of alternative guitar tunings
semitones (perfect fourth): All-fourths tuning, 6 semitones (augmented fourth, tritone, or diminished fifth): Augmented-fourths tuning, 7 semitones (perfect fifth):
Regular_tuning
Topics referred to by the same term
drink, popular in France, consisting of a lemonade mixed with a syrup. Tritone, a musical interval referred to as diabolo Diabolo, a genus of moths Diabolo
Diabolo_(disambiguation)
Ancient Roman amphitheater in Rome
Sisto Quattro Fiumi Quattro Fontane Tartarughe Trevi Fountain Tritons Tritone Other landmarks Altare della Patria (Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of Italy)
Colosseum
Chord progression
derived from a typical I−vi−ii−V turnaround through the application of tritone substitution of all but the first chord. In C major, the Tadd Dameron turnaround
Tadd_Dameron_turnaround
1969 film by Jacques Deray
Michel Legrand Production companies Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie Tritone Films Distributed by Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (France) Variety
La_Piscine_(film)
Tonal degree of the diatonic scale
("descending leading tone") to mean the descending diatonic supertonic (♮).) The tritone substitution, chord progression ii–subV–I on C (Dm–Db7–C), results in an
Leading_tone
Mexican footballer (born 1984)
Ascenso MX. Since December 2025 is the manager of Mexican club Tritones Vallarta. "TRITONES BUSCARÁ LA LIGUILLA: RICARDO JIMÉNEZ". Liga Premier Magazine
Ricardo Jiménez (footballer, born 1984)
Ricardo_Jiménez_(footballer,_born_1984)
Musical terminology
support tritone substitution (♭5 substitution). Thus, the 7alt chord on a given root can be substituted with the 13♯11 chord on the root a tritone away (e
Altered_chord
Change from one tonality to another
to form a diminished seventh chord in a key a minor third (m3 as root), tritone (d5 as root) or major sixth (d7 as root) away. Where the dominant seventh
Modulation_(music)
1874 tone poem written by Camille Saint-Saëns
soft chords from the string section. The solo violin enters playing the tritone, which was known as the diabolus in musica ("the Devil in music") during
Danse_macabre_(Saint-Saëns)
British rock guitarist (born 1948)
power chords (partly to make playing easier), and made much use of the tritone (or 'devil's interval'), resulting in a 'heavier' and 'darker' sound that
Tony_Iommi
2025 Latvian film
by Lauris Ābele Raitis Ābele Music by Lauris Ābele Production companies Tritone Studio Lumiere Lab Distributed by Media Move Release dates June 6, 2025 (2025-06-06)
Dog_of_God
Italian publisher
Central editorial office of Il Messaggero in Rome, Via del Tritone, near Piazza Barberini
Caltagirone_Editore
Composition by Benjamin Britten
Requiescant in Pace (organ, boys' choir and mixed chorus) The interval of a tritone between C and F♯ is a recurring motif, the occurrence of which unifies
War_Requiem
Symphony by Krzysztof Penderecki
of a tritone and a minor ninth. This opening movement is thematically important in that it introduces both the chromatic scale and the tritone as the
Symphony_No._3_(Penderecki)
Chord
notes consisting of a perfect fourth and a tritone. It is also known as a Viennese fourth chord or tritone-fourth chord. The grouping is named after the
Viennese_trichord
2018 film directed by Lauris Ābele and Raitis Ābele
Cinematography Mārcis Ābele Music by Kaspars Bārbals Production company Tritone Studio Release date 16 May 2018 (2018-05-16) Running time 90 minutes Country
Baltic_Tribes_(film)
Piece for piano by Arnold Schoenberg
semitone—the tritone—may seem the consequence of a desire to hint at 'tonic-dominant' relationships, and the occurrence of the tritone G–D♭ in all four
Suite_for_Piano_(Schoenberg)
Topics referred to by the same term
BBC television adventure series, remake of the earlier show Fontana del Tritone, Rome Fountain of the Tritons, Rome, completed in 1715 Triton Fountain
Triton
1946 composition for solo flute by Edgard Varèse
"inherently non-diatonic symmetrical elements". The opening ten bars outline a tritone, C♯–G, itself further divided into minor thirds (by E) with the upper minor
Density_21.5
Musical tuning system
24⁄12 400 5/4 386.31 +13.69 Perfect fourth 25⁄12 500 4/3 498.04 +1.96 Tritone 26⁄12 600 45/32 590.22 +9.78 Perfect fifth 27⁄12 700 3/2 701.96 −1
Equal_temperament
American guitarist
heavy metal and film music. Melodically his playing makes heavy use of tritone intervals, the whole tone scale and the diminished scale, helping establish
Larry_LaLonde
Class of music scales with seven notes
G–D', A–E') are all 3⁄2 = 1.5 (701.955 cents), but B–F' is the discordant tritone, here 729⁄512 = 1.423828125 (611.73 cents). Tones are each 9⁄8 = 1.125
Diatonic_scale
British electronic musician (born 1994)
plays "Sidequest", "Interdimensional", "Our Flame", and "Tritone" on Disciple Records. Tritone was a collaboration with Franky Nuts and Oliverse. Chime
Chime_(musician)
1973 film
by Gaby Peñalba Music by Lallo Gori Production companies Mundial Film Tritone Cinematografica Distributed by Modern Release dates 25 May 1973 (1973-05-25)
Fuzzy_the_Hero
1975 studio album by Kaveret
באוזן Studio album by Kaveret Released 1975 (1975) Recorded 1975 Studio Tritone Studios, Tel Aviv Genre Progressive Rock, Jazz, Soft Rock Length 43:58
Crowded_in_the_Ear
Spanish rock band
Fifteen Hits That Never Where (Locomotive Music 2009), CD Again & Again (Tritone, 2011), CD/LP Big City Lights (Legacy 2014), CD/LP Musseexum (El Segell
Sex_Museum_(band)
interval tritone was not banned by the Catholic Church and was not associated with devils during the Middle Ages. Early medieval music used the tritone in Gregorian
List of common misconceptions about arts and culture
List_of_common_misconceptions_about_arts_and_culture
Monument by Gianlorenzo Bernini
Bibiana Fountains of St. Peter's Square Fontana della Barcaccia Fontana del Tritone Fontana delle Api Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi Fontana del Moro Paintings
St._Peter's_Baldachin
Music scale which equally divides the octave
inverse symmetric diminished scale[citation needed]) and the two-semitone tritone scale: As explained above, both are composed of repeating sub-units within
Symmetric_scale
Confessio of Santa Francesca Romana
Bibiana Fountains of St. Peter's Square Fontana della Barcaccia Fontana del Tritone Fontana delle Api Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi Fontana del Moro Paintings
Confessio (Santa Francesca Romana)
Confessio_(Santa_Francesca_Romana)
delle Tartarughe, (The Turtle Fountain) Piazza Mattei (1588) Fontana del Tritone, Piazza Barberini (1642–43) Fontana delle Anfore (Fountain of the Amphorae)
List_of_fountains_in_Rome
1970 film by Umberto Lenzi
Ramirez Enzo Alabiso Music by Gregorio García Segura Production companies Tritone Filmindustria Medusa Cinematografica D.I.A. Release date February 20, 1970 (1970-02-20)
A_Quiet_Place_to_Kill
1971 film
Aguayo Edited by Enzo Alabiso Music by Gianni Ferrio Production companies Tritone Filmindustria Roma S.r.l. Terra-Filmkunst GmbH Producciones Cinematograficas
Long_Live_Your_Death
1975 film directed by Michele Lupo
Lupo Written by Mario Amendola Bruno Corbucci Gabriele Martin Produced by Tritone Filmindustria (Roma) Deutsche Fox Film Salvatore Alabiso Starring Giuliano
Africa_Express_(film)
1993 video game
"Eichhof". The Last Eichhof's code and levels were created by Daniel "Tritone" Schoch, graphics and fonts were credited to "Tweety". Additional programming
The_Last_Eichhof
Aspect of music
interval as part of a major seventh chord may sound relatively consonant. A tritone (the interval of the fourth step to the seventh step of the major scale
Harmony
Type of chord in music theory
chord. In this scenario, the half-diminished seventh chord is built on the tritone of the overall key and is equivalent to a secondary dominant seventh chord
Half-diminished_seventh_chord
Chord that contains the interval of an augmented sixth
Russian music of the late-Romantic period. Due to its construction of two tritones separated by a major third, it has transpositional invariance and is often
Augmented_sixth_chord
Seven-tone musical scale
fourth and the Locrian mode's diminished fifth are the only modes to have a tritone above the tonic. In Lydian mode, the tonic, dominant, and supertonic triads
Lydian_mode
Sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Bibiana Fountains of St. Peter's Square Fontana della Barcaccia Fontana del Tritone Fontana delle Api Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi Fontana del Moro Paintings
The_Rape_of_Proserpina
1991 compilation album by Tuxedomoon
"Atlantis" Steven Brown, Peter Dachert Ship of Fools (1986) 4:57 8. "Tritone (Musica Diablo)" Steven Brown, Peter Dachert, Blaine L. Reininger Half-Mute
Solve_et_Coagula
1977 song by Billy Joel
cadences back to the tonic of B♭ with the chords C, G♭, F, B♭. G♭ is the tritone substitution of the V chord for F, and F to B♭ forms another authentic
Vienna_(Billy_Joel_song)
Ascending form of the melodic minor scale
Scale Construction, p.12. ISBN 978-1-890944-53-7. R., Ken (2012). DOG EAR Tritone Substitution for Jazz Guitar, Amazon Digital Services, Inc., ASIN: B008FRWNIW
Jazz_minor_scale
Family of valved brass instruments
possesses or possessed the typical three-valve brass range from the note one tritone below that root note (second partial, all valves actuated) to the note
Saxhorn
Fountain in Rome with multiple Tritons
distinguished from the similarly named nearby Triton Fountain (Fontana del Tritone) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in the Piazza Barberini, with only a single Triton
Fountain_of_the_Tritons
Any musical scale used in jazz
F♯7 chord, one can use the same major pentatonic, this time based on the tritone (C–D–E–G–A) to imply ♭5–♭13–♭7–♭9–♯9, respectively. The term blues scale
Jazz_scale
Surname list
Huygens–Steiner theorem regarding moment of inertia Mathematics and games: Huygens's tritone, a musical interval Huygens lemniscate, a figure eight curve Microscopes:
Huygens
Volframio CM class - midget submarines CM1 CM2 Flutto class or Tritone class Type 1: Tritone Gorgo Flutto Marea Vortice Nautilo Murena Grongo Sparide Spigola
List_of_submarines_of_Italy
Tritone scale on C.
List of musical scales and modes
List_of_musical_scales_and_modes
Glossary of Douglas Adams' phrases
design flaws is the choir of robots that perform this song: they sing a tritone out of tune with the accompaniment. The Guide relates that the words "Share
Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
Harmonic progression
well have been an inherent reference in his chromatic third relations, tritone substitutes, and so on. In playing that style, Coltrane found it "easy
Coltrane_changes
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English : variant spelling of Aubrey.
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n.
A superfluous or augmented fourth.