The tritone has been blamed for chaos, banned by choirs, and embraced by metalheads. Here’s what the 'devil's interval' ...

Headbanging metal bands capitalize this tritone, also known as the Devil’s Interval (and more on that soon), because it is both rough on the ears and devilishly hard to sing.

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, rock and even Broadway musicals.

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835â 1921),Danse Macabre â  The tritone is one of the most dissonant intervals in Western music, and its undesired sound has always elicited devilish associations.

Frank Ragozzine, Correspondence in Perception of the Tritone Paradox and Perfect-Fifth/Perfect-Fourth Intervals, Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Apr. 1, 2013), pp.

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 ...

Headbanging metal bands capitalize this tritone, also known as the Devil’s Interval (and more on that soon), because it is both rough on the ears and devilishly hard to sing.

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, rock and even Broadway musicals.