Was the major third dissonant for them because they tuned their instruments differently? Or was it just a matter of perception? On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 9:03 AM, Cris Moore <moore@santafe.edu> wrote:
That is a famous tritone (in the equal-tempered scale, the square root of 2) but I don’t think it’s a joke. Another classic use is in the Tristan chord.
I was surprised to learn from a friend that in the middle ages, the major third was considered very dissonant. We consider it quite consonant, and associate it with the ratio 5:4. In the 12-tone scale this is about 1% off from the cube root of 2.
Cris
On Jan 17, 2018, at 9:36 AM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
Leonard Bernstein famously (in musical circles, at least) included a musical joke in "West Side Story" with the first two notes of the song "Maria", which form a *tritone* (the two "Ma ri" notes of the "Ma ri a").
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