On 15 March 2016, the web site Submediant published an article positing that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz had proposed a ban on the tritone, a musical interval between three whole notes, ...

In music theory, the tritone is an interval of three whole steps that can sound unresolved and creepy. Over time, the sound has wound up in jazz,... The Unsettling Sound Of Tritones, The Devil's ...

Black Sabbath performs during their Heaven and Hell tour in 1980. The band helped revive the long-feared “Devil’s interval”—a dissonant sound once shunned by medieval choirs—as the backbone of heavy ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Shepard (1964) found that the pitch height of a pair of octave-related complex tones is perceived in accordance with the principle of ...

Once upon a time, my sophomore year in college in fact, a new song from Deep Purple, “Smoke on the Water,” prompted me to play with its strange chord structure on the piano installed in the dormitory ...

Everyone knows the sounds of Halloween: creaky floorboards, howling winds, the amplified sound of a beating heart. But back in the day, the devil was said to exist in a particular musical tone. For ...

Frans Francken's Death Playing the Violin. In music theory, the tritone came to be known as the devil's interval. (Wikimedia Commons) ...