tritone

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Nerd factor: I rebuilt the color image as a tritone using the red-blue-black colors used in the typography of the poster design to make it look more feasible for how it could have been actually printed.

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  1. noun Music An interval composed of three whole tones.

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  • In this first scene, Gheorghiu sings the opera's most famous aria, "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta" (Doretta's Dream Song) - a fictional woman's dreamy longing for love lost summed up in two falling intervals: a perfect fifth followed by a tritone. —  TheState.com: The Buzz
  • In this first scene, Gheorghiu sings the opera's most famous aria, "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta" (Doretta's Dream Song) _ a fictional woman's dreamy longing for love lost summed up in two falling intervals: a perfect fifth followed by a tritone. —  - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
  • Overall, it has a surprising amount of melodic elements to the riffing (but maybe not melodic in a way that most non metallers understand) in edition to the unparalleled brutality of the riffs, no doubt powered along with a helping of tritone based riffs. —  Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website
  • Just what is it about the tritone chord progression that makes it so mysterious? —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Whatever it is, the tritone chord progression in music made a comeback in music after several centuries of bad publicity. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. Medieval Latin tritonus, from Greek tritonos, having three tones : tri-, three; see trei- in Indo-European roots + tonos, tone; see tone.

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  1. from Greek τρίτονος, having three tones, from τρεῖς (τρι -), three, + τόνος, tone.
 

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