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- How do you resolve a tritone?
- What does a tritone invert to?
- Is a tritone major or minor?
- What mode has a tritone?
How do you resolve a tritone?
The tritone interval can be resolved in two types of contrary motion: one in which both notes move in by half steps, and one in which both notes move out by half steps. This resolution of tritones is typical in traditional Western harmony when a V7 chord re- solves to the I chord (e.g., G7 to C).
What does a tritone invert to?
A diminished fifth (also known as a tritone) is the only interval that has the same number of half-steps (6) when inverted to an augmented fourth (6 half-steps), even though the quality changes from diminished to augmented. That makes it the only interval that would return you to your starting pitch in both directions.
Is a tritone major or minor?
Tritones in Scales
In fact, in every Major scale, the 4th note and the 7th note will form a tritone, and specifically an augmented 4th. In E Major, for example, the 4th is A and the 7th is D#, and A ⇨ D# is a tritone. In a natural minor scale (also called the Aeolian mode), the tritone is between the 2nd and the 6th.
What mode has a tritone?
Of all 14 diatonic seven-note modes, only the Ionian mode and the Aeolian mode (major and minor scales) contain tritone pitches which lie completely outside the tonic triad. In other words, in only these two modes do the tritone pitches not overlap either scale degrees 1, 3, or 5.
