Jim Donegan ✅ · @jimdonegan
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Austin Philip Noble · @AustinPhilipNoble
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Diabolus in Musica! It's quite funny what used to upset people.....




#notreallythedevil #diabolusinmusica #tritone #intervals

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Glenn White · @SpankMobley
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Stan Carey · @stancarey
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Reading "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" by Oliver Sacks this morning. Here's a fun footnote on two contrasting musical intervals: the diabolical tritone and its near-relative the "Clapham Junction of Harmony" 🎼 🎵

#music #books #oliversacks #metaphor #composing #musictheory #tritone #harmony

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Matti · @matti
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A wild “diabolus in musica” appeared on the Gloria part in Guillaume de Machaut’s (c. 1300–1377) Messe se Nostre Dame (composed before 1365).

This is just a minor indicator that the wasn’t as banned as the myth says. I’d bet that didn’t get beheaded for writing this diatonic tritone in the times.

#tritone #Machaut #medieval #DiabolusInMusica #GuillaumeDeMachaut

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