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Three-note musical interval
Answer for the clue "Three-note musical interval ", 7 letters:
tritone
Alternative clues for the word tritone
- Musical interval aka augmented fourth
- Interval of three whole steps
- Dark interval heard in "Enter Sandman" and the "Simpsons" theme
- Interval known as "the devil in music" on account of its unsettling sound
- Musical interval: tenor struggles with it
- Musical interval also called an augmented fourth
- Augmented fourth
Word definitions for tritone in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context music English) An interval of three whole tones.
Wikipedia
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 ...
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.]
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.