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PRONUNCIATION OF TRITONE

tritone  [ˈtraɪˌtəʊn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRITONE

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Tritone is a noun.
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WHAT DOES TRITONE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tritone

In music theory, the tritone is strictly defined as a musical interval composed of three adjacent whole tones. For instance, the interval from F up to the B above it is a tritone as it can be decomposed into the three adjacent whole tones F–G, G–A, and A–B. According to this definition, within a diatonic scale there is only one tritone for each octave. For instance, the above-mentioned interval F–B is the only tritone which can be formed using the notes of the C major scale. A tritone is also commonly defined as an interval spanning six semitones. According to this definition, a diatonic scale contains two tritones for each octave. For instance, the above-mentioned C major scale contains the tritones F–B and B–F. In classical music, the tritone is a harmonic and melodic dissonance and is important in the study of musical harmony. The tritone can be used to avoid traditional tonality: "Any tendency for a tonality to emerge may be avoided by introducing a note three whole tones distant from the key note of that tonality." Contrarily, the tritone found in the dominant seventh chord helps establish the tonality of a composition.

Definition of tritone in the English dictionary

The definition of tritone in the dictionary is a musical interval consisting of three whole tones; augmented fourth.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRITONE


acetone
ˈæsɪˌtəʊn
barbitone
ˈbɑːbɪˌtəʊn
baritone
ˈbærɪˌtəʊn
baryton
ˈbærɪˌtəʊn
barytone
ˈbærɪˌtəʊn
bass-baritone
ˌbeɪsˈbærɪˌtəʊn
ditone
ˈdaɪˌtəʊn
duotone
ˈdjuːəˌtəʊn
ecotone
ˈiːkəˌtəʊn
goldtone
ˈɡəʊldˌtəʊn
halftone
ˈhɑːfˌtəʊn
monotone
ˈmɒnəˌtəʊn
Movietone
ˈmuːvɪˌtəʊn
multitone
ˈmʌltɪˌtəʊn
overtone
ˈəʊvəˌtəʊn
paroxytone
pəˈrɒksɪˌtəʊn
proparoxytone
ˌprəʊpəˈrɒksɪˌtəʊn
ringtone
ˈrɪŋˌtəʊn
semitone
ˈsɛmɪˌtəʊn
undertone
ˈʌndəˌtəʊn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRITONE

tritiation
tritical
triticale
tritically
triticalness
triticeous
triticism
triticum
tritide
tritium
triton
tritonia
tritubercular
trituberculate
trituberculism
trituberculy
triturable
triturate
trituration
triturator

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRITONE

chromatic semitone
cornerstone
Crotone
cyclobarbitone
diatonic semitone
firestone
gemstone
hearthstone
keystone
kill two birds with one stone
limestone
milestone
pentobarbitone
phenobarbitone
rhinestone
rolling stone
stepping stone
stone
tone
two-tone

Synonyms and antonyms of tritone in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tritone» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRITONE

Find out the translation of tritone to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tritone from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tritone» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

全音
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tritono
570 millions of speakers

English

tritone
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tritone
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

tritone
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тритон
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

trítono
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tritone
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

triton
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tritone
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tritonus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

三全音
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

삼중
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tritone
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Tritone
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tritone
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ट्रायटीन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

üç sesli parça
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tritone
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tryton
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тритон
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Tritone
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Tritone
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tritone
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tritone
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tritone
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tritone

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRITONE»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRITONE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tritone

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRITONE»

Discover the use of tritone in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tritone and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Complete Electric Bass Method: Beginning Electric Bass, Book ...
Take your bottom all the way to the top.
David Overthrow, 2005
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Musica Ficta: Theories of Accidental Inflections in Vocal ...
That is, the tritone F-l| has to be avoided regardless of whether it is direct or indirect, ascending or descending, unless B is followed by c or the mode is tetrardus. Of the many fifteenth- and sixteenth-century theorists who talk about the necessity ...
Karol Berger, 2004
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The tritone: a method of harmony and modulation
The intervals of most value, that is to say of the strongest tonic-indicating power, are the dissonance and tritone, in the order in which they appear in the table. It will be seen hereafter that the dissonance and tritone resolve on the same root and ...
Joseph Green (musician.), 1870
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Riffs: How to Create and Play Great Guitar Riffs
RIFF GALLERY: tritones When it comes to making up tritone riffs there are several methods. It would be unusual to try to string a sequence of tritones together played as intervals, though it is effective to hit a tritone in the middle of single notes ...
Rikky Rooksby, 2002
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Stories from the Tritone: Book One
Book One Stephen Nepa. was pretty much the only legible word on the old dingy thing. and that was only because he rarely pressed. andy was thinking about the offer that Ray had made to him earlier when he returned to the shop after fixing ...
Stephen Nepa, 2011
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Jazzology: The Encyclopedia of Jazz Theory for All Musicians
In it. a dominant chord is replaced or followed with another one whose root is a tritone away. The tritone sub is one of the basic cadences of jazz, both as a two- chord structure, and as a variation of the ii-V-I cadence, which then becomes ii-^II -I.
Robert Rawlins, Nor Eddine Bahha, Barrett Tagliarino, 2005
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Intermediate Jazz Keyboard
D7 A>7 In the Middle Ages, you could be punished for playing a tritone ( diminished 5th/augmented 4th). They called it Intervalis Diabolis, which can be loosely translated from Latin as "whoa Nelly that's a funky interval." A more traditional ...
Noah Baerman, 1998
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Jazz Keyboard Harmony
One of the most important and widely used intervals in jazz is also possibly the most dissonant of them all: the tritone (diminished 5th/ augmented 4th,three whole steps). We have been playing the tritone so often in our dominant 7 chord  ...
Noah Baerman, 2000
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Composition, Chromaticism and the Developmental Process: A ...
All eleven-pitch-class systems are constructed around a "system-consonant" tritone, meaning that tritone which divides the root or tonic octave at its midpoint. Again, in reference to the "0" system, C-F# is the system-consonant tritone since F# ...
Henry Burnett, Roy Nitzberg, 2007
10
The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History
featuring Chu Berry and Roy Eldridge, recorded in 1938 while Hawkins was still in Europe, the tritone substitution — a D chord in the third measure — is plainly audible in Clyde Hart's stride piano accompaniment. Hart, who later lent his ...
Scott Knowles DeVeaux, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRITONE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tritone is used in the context of the following news items.
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Musikmesse '15 - Gurus Amps Tritone and 5015 Demos
Musikmesse '15 - Gurus Amps Tritone and 5015 Demos. Shawn Hammond. May 15, 2015. A A. Guru-FEAT. An error occurred. Try watching this video on ... «Premier Guitar, May 15»
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Roma, bambini rom fanno il bagno nella vasca del Tritone di Bernini
Dopo quel che è successo alla Barcaccia di piazza di Spagna lo scorso febbraio, il Messaggero segnala oggi (con tanto di foto) che la Fontana del Tritone in ... «Blitz quotidiano, Apr 15»
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Tritone Singers choir shows off its new works to sell-out audience
The 22-strong choir, under the direction of Richard Wilkins and Douglas Potts on the organ, performed a number of Island firsts, including a new piece by ... «Isle of Wight County Press, Apr 15»
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St. Louis Guitar Heroes Set to Gather at this Weekend's Tritone
This weekend, while NCAA fans are ankle-deep in busted brackets, a different kind of obsessive will be gathering for the very first Tritone Guitars Gear Expo. «Riverfront Times, Mar 15»
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Roma, pescatori di monete nella fontana del Tritone: le aste per i …
A Fontana di Trevi si rischia l'arresto. A Barberini, nella fontana del Tritone, invece, la pesca delle monete lanciate dai turisti è più facile. A qualsiasi ora del ... «Il Messaggero, Dec 14»
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A via del Tritone pieno di vip e stelle per la mostra di Galileo
(Il Ghirlandaio) Roma, 15 nov - Mondanità e cultura per il vernissage nello Spazio Espositivo Tritone della Fondazione Sorgente Group. Cento ospiti del mondo ... «Il Ghirlandaio, Nov 14»
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Paura in via del Tritone, per il forte vento crolla il vetro di una finestra …
Paura in via del Tritone, a pochi passo dalla fontana di Trevi. Per il forte vento questa mattina, poco dopo le 10.30, si è staccato il vetro di una finestra al secondo ... «La Repubblica, Nov 14»
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Win a Fizik Tritone Kyum saddle with Uplace-BMC Pro Triathlon Team
The countdown to Kona is well and truly on! To celebrate, we've teamed up with the guys at Uplace-BMC Pro Triathlon Team to bring you yet another fantastic ... «Triathlete Europe, Oct 14»
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Tritone mappato da cima a fondo
La stessa cosa è accaduta alle immagini che per prime hanno ritratto la luna di Nettuno, Tritone, nel lontano 1989, quando la sonda della NASA Voyager 2 ... «Media Inaf, Aug 14»
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The Devil's Music: 10 Songs Based Around the Tritone Interval
If you've ever studied any music theory or are just given to reading about music, you've probably heard of the tritone — it's an interval that's three whole tones ... «Flavorwire, Jul 14»

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