Re: OT: Non-Human Phonology

From: "Rob Haden" <magwich78@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:16 AM

> What's a tritone, though?
Don't know if this is a rhetorical question, but if you
ask for an explanation here: A tritone is a chord
(Zweiklang?) consisting of a base tone and the augmented
fourth (diminished fifth), e.g. C + F#. That is, a
tritone is always the tone that is on the opposite side
of the base tone in the circle of fifths (Quintenzirkel?).
It once was forbidden by a papal order, at least in church
music, and was called "diabolis in musica" because it sounds
rather horrible. I read it's important in Jazz music,
though. I don't want to say that Jazz music sounds horrible,
but you can't apply all the aesthetics of classical music
to Jazz.

Carsten

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