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Iommi added the diabolus in musica, an eerie tritone musical interval denounced as unholy and dangerous since the Middle Ages.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 July 2025
Chords have cultural identities attached to them: major triads are bright, minor triads are gloomy, perfect fifths are sturdy, tritones and semitones are unsettling.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
Bulgari is also making history by adding a new tune to a range of chiming timepieces, introducing tritone harmonic intervals, created in collaboration with the Italian-Swiss conductor Lorenzo Viotti.
—Luisa Zargani, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
Then, as Claire looks into the eyes of a coyote and senses chaotic energies rising within her, the hum gravitates downward, with double-basses and piano slithering across the classically diabolical interval of the tritone.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Something akin to obsession followed, as composers used tritones to probe the darker corners of nature and humanity.
—Staff, Quartz, 25 Sep. 2024
Its official title, the tritone, was a chord or interval of notes that was dubbed Diabolus in musica (devil in music) due to its evil sounding harmony.
—Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
There’s a long tradition of the tritone in TV themes, like The Simpsons and The Jetsons.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2021
From top, a punch of pattern by Giorgio Armani; Acne’s clean and lean look; an advanced tritone outfit by E. Tautz.
—Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 28 June 2019
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 July 2025
Chords have cultural identities attached to them: major triads are bright, minor triads are gloomy, perfect fifths are sturdy, tritones and semitones are unsettling.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
Bulgari is also making history by adding a new tune to a range of chiming timepieces, introducing tritone harmonic intervals, created in collaboration with the Italian-Swiss conductor Lorenzo Viotti.
—Luisa Zargani, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
Then, as Claire looks into the eyes of a coyote and senses chaotic energies rising within her, the hum gravitates downward, with double-basses and piano slithering across the classically diabolical interval of the tritone.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Something akin to obsession followed, as composers used tritones to probe the darker corners of nature and humanity.
—Staff, Quartz, 25 Sep. 2024
Its official title, the tritone, was a chord or interval of notes that was dubbed Diabolus in musica (devil in music) due to its evil sounding harmony.
—Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
There’s a long tradition of the tritone in TV themes, like The Simpsons and The Jetsons.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2021
From top, a punch of pattern by Giorgio Armani; Acne’s clean and lean look; an advanced tritone outfit by E. Tautz.
—Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 28 June 2019
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“Tritone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tritone. Accessed 1 Aug. 2025.
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