Sunday, August 08, 2004

A Fascinating Interval

The early church demonized it. It is also called the tritone or the "blue" note. Exactly halfway through an octave, the flatted fifth has a primal and irrational (square root of 2) frequency relationship with the tonic. It is also an enharmonic sharped fourth.

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