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Tritone: History, Applications, Events & Music

In music theory, a tritone is a musical interval spanning three whole tones. For instance, the interval from F to the B above it (in short, F–B) is a tritone as it can be decomposed into the three adjacent whole tones F–G, G–A, and A–B.

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Tritone topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Applications, Events and Music as prominent areas in the source structure around Tritone.

Related topics
164
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
171
Extracted relationships
88
Concept neighborhoods
71
Bridge connections
171

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 70 topics
Historical uses · 28 topics
In tonal music · 23 topics
Definition · 14 topics
Different tuning systems · 13 topics
Dissonance and expressiveness · 8 topics
Eleventh harmonic · 8 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Abbreviation
TT, A4, d5
Equal temperament
600
Interval class
6
Inverse
tritone
Just interval
Pythagorean: 729:512, 1024:729 5-limit: 25:18, 36:25; 45:32, 64:45 7-limit: 7:5, 10:7 13-limit: 13:9, 18:13
Just intonation
Pythagorean: 612, 588 5-limit: 569, 631; 590, 610 7-limit: 583, 617 13-limit: 563, 637

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Definition

Dissonance and expressiveness

In tonal music

Historical uses

Different tuning systems

Eleventh harmonic

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Tritone connects Entity context

The extracted context around Tritone shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Tritone → According, As Timothy Judd, Beatles, Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath's, Blue Jay Way, Cool, Dave Moskowitz, Gee, George Harrison, Have, Hendrix, If, It, It's, Jimi Hendrix's, Leonard Bernstein, Love, Maria, Music Another extracted example is Tritone → Brahms's First Symphony, Britten's Serenade, C1, F4, For, Horn, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Pythagorean, Strings, Tenor, The, This. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Tritone

Top relations

related to Popular music · 30
Tritone → According, As Timothy Judd, Beatles, Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath's, Blue Jay Way, Cool, Dave Moskowitz, Gee, George Harrison, Have, Hendrix, If, It, It's, Jimi Hendrix's, Leonard Bernstein, Love, Maria, Music
related to Eleventh harmonic · 12
Tritone → Brahms's First Symphony, Britten's Serenade, C1, F4, For, Horn, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Pythagorean, Strings, Tenor, The, This
related to In tonal harmony · 8
Tritone → Diminished, Dominant, French, German, Half-diminished, In, Other, The Italian
related to Further reading · 7
Tritone → Amazon Digital Services, ASIN, B008FRWNIW, DOG EAR Tritone Substitution, Inc, Jazz Guitar, Ken
related to Definition · 6
Tritone → A4, By, For, The, There, Under
related to External links · 5
Tritone → BBC News Magazine, January, Shepard Tones, Wayback Machine, Will Hodgkinson
is a · 3
Tritone → harmonic and melodic dissonance and tritones in chords push toward resolution, musical interval spanning three whole tones, restless interval
related to Different tuning systems · 2
Tritone → In, This
see also · 2
Tritone → List, Unequal
Abbreviation · 1
Tritone → TT, A4, d5

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

diminished augmented fifth interval fourth minor music tritones scale major chords octave cents seventh just resolution one tones also third

Tritone relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 88 structured relationships around Tritone. Examples in this analysis include Tritone → Abbreviation → TT, A4, d5 and Tritone → Equal temperament → 600. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
TritoneAbbreviationTT, A4, d51.00infobox
TritoneEqual temperament6001.00infobox
TritoneInterval class61.00infobox
TritoneInversetritone1.00infobox
TritoneJust intervalPythagorean: 729:512, 1024:729 5-limit: 25:18, 36:25; 45:32, 64:45 7-limit: 7:5, 10:7 13-limit: 13:9, 18:131.00infobox
TritoneJust intonationPythagorean: 612, 588 5-limit: 569, 631; 590, 610 7-limit: 583, 617 13-limit: 563, 6371.00infobox
TritoneOther namesaugmented fourth, diminished fifth, the Devil’s interval (obscure)1.00infobox
TritoneSemitones61.00infobox
Tritoneis amusical interval spanning three whole tones0.90text
Tritoneis aharmonic and melodic dissonance and tritones in chords push toward resolution0.90text
Tritoneis arestless interval0.90text
Ugolino d'Orvietoinstance ofLater theorists0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Tritone bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Chords, Diminished and Also. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Tritone
    • Chords
    • Diminished
    • Also
    • Chord
    • Tones
    • Fifth
    • Fourth
    • Minor
    • Dissonance
    • Scale
    • Harmony
    • Third
  • tritone
    • Chords
    • Diminished
    • Also
    • Chord
    • Tones
    • Fifth
    • Fourth
    • Minor
    • Dissonance
    • Scale
    • Harmony
    • Third
  • music theory
    • Interval
    • Dissonance
    • Tritone
    • First
    • Three
    • Whole
    • Eleventh
    • Harmonic
    • Tones
    • Also
    • Second
    • Minor
  • musical interval
    • Music
    • Tritone
    • Tones
    • Three
    • Whole
    • Also
    • Dissonance
    • Harmony
    • First
    • Definition
    • Augmented
    • Fourth
  • whole tones
    • Tones
    • Whole
    • Three
    • Definition
    • Interval
    • Fourth
    • Tritone
    • Augmented
    • Dissonance
    • Music
    • Harmony
    • Instance
  • octave
    • Cents
    • One
    • Temperament
    • Definition
    • Fifth
    • Augmented
    • Fourth
    • Intervals
    • Two
    • Diminished
    • Just
    • Major
  • functional harmony
    • Resolution
    • Also
    • Dissonance
    • Chords
    • Eleventh
    • Harmonic
    • Tritones
    • Interval
    • Three
    • Whole
    • Tritone
    • Temperament
  • dissonance
    • Harmony
    • Eleventh
    • Harmonic
    • Resolution
    • Music
    • Major
    • Chords
    • Minor
    • Three
    • Whole
    • Interval
    • Tritone

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Tritone, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Tritone with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
TritoneOverview · splits 101 ⟂ 71
TritoneHistorical uses · splits 143 ⟂ 29
TritoneIn tonal music · splits 148 ⟂ 24
TritoneDefinition · splits 157 ⟂ 15
TritoneDifferent tuning systems · splits 158 ⟂ 14
TritoneDissonance and expressiveness · splits 163 ⟂ 9
TritoneEleventh harmonic · splits 163 ⟂ 9

Map overview Semantic statistics

Tritone

Nodes172
Edges171
Triples88
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011628
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Tritone to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Applications, Events & Music, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Tritone · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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