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.

I suspect the latter, at least with the tritone. After all, “Maria” employs the Devil’s Interval but it’s not scary or even malevolent.

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 interval between C and F-sharp, for example, forms a tritone because the two notes are separated by three whole tones. The tritone was long avoided in compositions due to its harmonic complexity ...

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.