tritone
  • henrik.hank
    Posts: 103
    What did the Church actually say about this "tritone"?
  • Andrew Motyka
    Posts: 946
    The Church, officially? Nothing. Guido d'Arezzo avoided it because he considered Bb a diatonic note, avoiding the dissonance from F to B. It was nicknamed the "devil in music" for quite some time, but so far as I know there was never any official word on it.
  • Andrew_Malton
    Posts: 1,175
    Of course then he had to tolerate Bb to E...
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  • Andrew Motyka
    Posts: 946
    Sure, but that doesn't come up in the chant literature very often.
  • noel jones, aagonoel jones, aago
    Posts: 6,609
    It's important not to underestimate the strict role the church had in rules of tonality.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8MzcVQcehs
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  • ryandryand
    Posts: 1,640
    frogman,

    I've been scouring YouTube for the last half-hour looking for this video. Thanks for posting!
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  • henrik.hank
    Posts: 103
    Crazy video. I didn't really get it (and then French isn't easy to understand). It's like he was preaching against rock music.
    Anyway, if Guido d'Arezzo didn't use the black keys someone started to do so. There in fact many Gregorian chant sheet music with sharps.
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,196
    He's railing against the introduction of the interval of a third; not perfect like the fourth and fifth.
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