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tritone Mus.|ˈtraɪtəʊn|
[ad. med.L. tritonus, ad. Gr. τρίτονος, f. τρι- tri- + τόνος tone.]
An interval consisting of three whole tones; an augmented fourth. (Also formerly in Latin form.)
1609Douland Ornith. Microl. 20 A Tritone doth exceed the Consonance of a Diatessaron. 1730Treat. Harmony 7 The Leaps of the False Relations, viz. of a Tritonus, and of a Semidiapente are..forbidden. 1775Steele in Phil. Trans. LXV. 76 Tritones, or sharp fourths, above the upper minims. 1789Burney Hist. Mus. (ed. 2) III. vii. 344 The Tritonus..consisting of three tones, without the intervention of a semitone, is extremely difficult to sing. 1854Cherubini's Counterpoint 11 It now remains to be demonstrated how and why the Tritone is a false relation in harmony. |