Translations for tritone in the English»Italian Dictionary (Go to Italian»English)

tritone [Brit ˈtrʌɪtəʊn, Am ˈtraɪtoʊn] N MUS

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Often, police sirens also use the interval of a tritone to help draw attention. en.wikipedia.org

Tritone substitutions are also closely related to the altered chord used commonly in jazz. en.wikipedia.org

In the newer triadic harmonic system, however, the tritone became permissible, as the standardization of functional dissonance made its use in dominant chords desirable. en.wikipedia.org

The piece starts with the right hand descending on a chromatic scale and in tritone chords. en.wikipedia.org

At the start of the piece, there is a slow dreamlike introduction consisting of tritone phrases. en.wikipedia.org

The half-diminished seventh chord contains the same tritone, while the fully diminished seventh chord is made up of two superposed tritones a minor third apart. en.wikipedia.org

It is very dissonant, containing the dissonant intervals of the tritone and the major seventh. en.wikipedia.org

This made it much easier to avoid the dreaded tritone. en.wikipedia.org

Composers began concerning themselves with harmonic progressions, and also employed the tritone, perceived as an unstable interval, to create dissonance. en.wikipedia.org

Accidentals are rare, and somewhat unsystematically used, often to avoid the tritone. en.wikipedia.org

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