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Three-whole-step interval
Answer for the clue "Three-whole-step interval ", 7 letters:
tritone
Alternative clues for the word tritone
- Interval known as "the devil in music" on account of its unsettling sound
- Musical interval of three whole steps
- Dark interval heard in "Enter Sandman" and the "Simpsons" theme
- Musical interval aka augmented fourth
- Interval for players performing in dull setting
- Three-step musical interval
- Musical interval: tenor struggles with it
Word definitions for tritone in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tritone \Tri"tone`\, n. [Gr. tri`tonos of three tones; tri- tri- + to`nos a tone.] (Mus.) A superfluous or augmented fourth. [R.]
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tritone may refer to: Tritone (music), or augmented fourth, a dissonant interval of two pitches Tritone (telephony), or special information tones (SIT), a sequence of three tones played to indicate that a call did not go through An image reproduced using ...
Usage examples of tritone.
Diana Deutsch, which is that the ambiguity in perception of direction of tritone intervals between Shepard tones is a function of absolute pitch modulo octaves, with the function being different for different individuals.
Conquering the skittish entrances and squashing some unscored tritones, we flew along well.