An interval of three whole tones (an augmented fourth), as between C and F sharp.
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Example sentencesExamples
After the conclusion of the exposition in bar 182, Mozart needs only nine bars to reach the key of B minor - at the interval of a tritone.
It also sounds heavily dissonant due to tone clusters and many tritones.
The musical space of the tritone B-E# is slowly explored throughout the work, being filled in by pivotal steps of a minor third, against the implied cycles of the fifths around B and F minors.
Open fifths, fourths and tritones, modality and whole-tone scales abound.
The piece has an extremely haunting ending, an epilogue that reflects the prologue of alternating canons, consisting of a twelve tone row and based exclusively on minor seconds and tritones.
Definition of tritone in US English:
tritone
nounˈtrītōnˈtraɪtoʊn
Music
An interval of three whole tones (an augmented fourth), as between C and F sharp.
〔乐〕三全音
Example sentencesExamples
After the conclusion of the exposition in bar 182, Mozart needs only nine bars to reach the key of B minor - at the interval of a tritone.
Open fifths, fourths and tritones, modality and whole-tone scales abound.
The musical space of the tritone B-E# is slowly explored throughout the work, being filled in by pivotal steps of a minor third, against the implied cycles of the fifths around B and F minors.
The piece has an extremely haunting ending, an epilogue that reflects the prologue of alternating canons, consisting of a twelve tone row and based exclusively on minor seconds and tritones.
It also sounds heavily dissonant due to tone clusters and many tritones.