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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
162
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
169
Extracted relationships
58
Related term clusters
71
Bridge connections
169

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 · 69 topics
Historical uses · 28 topics
In tonal music · 23 topics
Definition · 13 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

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Overview

Definition

Dissonance and expressiveness

In tonal music

Historical uses

Different tuning systems

Eleventh harmonic

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Advanced semantic analysis

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, Hendrix, It's, Jimi Hendrix's, Leonard Bernstein, Love, Maria, Music, Officer Krupke, Perhaps, Prologue Another extracted example is Tritone → Brahms's First Symphony, Britten's Serenade, C1, F4, Horn, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Pythagorean, Strings, Tenor. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Tritone

Top relations

related to Popular music · 26
Tritone → According, As Timothy Judd, Beatles, Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath's, Blue Jay Way, Cool, Dave Moskowitz, Gee, George Harrison, Hendrix, It's, Jimi Hendrix's, Leonard Bernstein, Love, Maria, Music, Officer Krupke, Perhaps, Prologue
related to Eleventh harmonic · 9
Tritone → Brahms's First Symphony, Britten's Serenade, C1, F4, Horn, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Pythagorean, Strings, Tenor
related to In tonal harmony · 6
Tritone → Diminished, Dominant, French, German, Half-diminished, The Italian
is a · 3
Tritone → harmonic and melodic dissonance and tritones in chords push toward resolution, musical interval spanning three whole tones, restless interval
Abbreviation · 1
Tritone → TT, A4, d5
Equal temperament · 1
Tritone → 600
Interval class · 1
Tritone → 6
Inverse · 1
Tritone → tritone
Just interval · 1
Tritone → 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 · 1
Tritone → Pythagorean: 612, 588 5-limit: 569, 631; 590, 610 7-limit: 583, 617 13-limit: 563, 637

Important terminology

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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 58 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 Related term clusters

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
  • 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
  • jazz harmony
    • Resolution
    • Also
    • Dissonance
    • Chords
    • Eleventh
    • Harmonic
    • Tritones
    • Interval
    • Three
    • Whole
    • Tritone
    • Temperament
  • tritone substitution
    • Chords
    • Diminished
    • Also
    • Chord
    • Tones
    • Fifth
    • Fourth
    • Minor
    • Dissonance
    • Scale
    • Harmony
    • Third
  • septimal tritone
    • Chords
    • Diminished
    • Also
    • Chord
    • Tones
    • Fifth
    • Fourth
    • Minor
    • Dissonance
    • Scale
    • Harmony
    • Third

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
Tritone — Overview · splits 100 ⟂ 70
Tritone — Historical uses · splits 141 ⟂ 29
Tritone — In tonal music · splits 146 ⟂ 24
Tritone — Definition · splits 156 ⟂ 14
Tritone — Different tuning systems · splits 156 ⟂ 14
Tritone — Dissonance and expressiveness · splits 161 ⟂ 9
Tritone — Eleventh harmonic · splits 161 ⟂ 9

Map overview Semantic statistics

Tritone

Nodes170
Edges169
Triples58
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011765
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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