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.

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.

In music theory, the tritone came to be known as the devil's interval. Everyone knows the sounds of Halloween: creaky floorboards, howling winds, the amplified sound of a beating heart. But back in ...

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.

The track silences the screams halfway through with a Mindrot-styled acoustic interlude, while "Scavenger" performs a similar trick with shades of the "diabolus in musica" tritone interval made ...

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.