In music theory, the tritone is an interval of three whole steps that can sound unresolved and creepy. Over time, the sound has wound up in jazz,... The Unsettling Sound Of Tritones, The Devil's ...

Music is a powerful thing: It can raise our spirits, carry us through athletic challenges, and make us weep. Its very fabric is a source of power and intrigue, too, since just a measly few tones might ...

Once upon a time, my sophomore year in college in fact, a new song from Deep Purple, “Smoke on the Water,” prompted me to play with its strange chord structure on the piano installed in the dormitory ...

Frans Francken's Death Playing the Violin. In music theory, the tritone came to be known as the devil's interval. (Wikimedia Commons) ...