tritone

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1. tritone - Noun

2. tritone - Adjective

Meaning

A superfluous or augmented fourth.

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Also ditone and semiditone are specific for Pythagorean tuning, while tone and tritone are used generically for all tuning systems. Source: Internet

Hoppin (1978), p. 66. The inclusion of this tone has several uses, but one that seems particularly common is in order to avoid melodic difficulties caused, once again, by the tritone. Source: Internet

If either of them paralleled an original chant for too long (depending on the mode) a tritone would result. Source: Internet

A tritone (the interval of the fourth step to the seventh step of the major scale, i.e., F to B) sounds very dissonant alone, but less so within the context of a dominant seventh chord (G7 or D 7 in that example). Source: Internet

Every pitch in a glissando must have the same harmonic number, and a tritone is the largest interval that can be performed as a glissando. Source: Internet

New forms of chromaticism and dissonance were introduced into jazz, and the dissonant tritone (or "flatted fifth") interval became the "most important interval of bebop" Joachim Berendt. Source: Internet

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