When it comes to triads, you tend to know exactly where you are with the basic constructs of major or minor. Take the 3rd of a major triad, drop it by a semitone, and to quote a well known song, it ...

IN THOSE days composing music was very much an act of praising God. The music should therefore be beautiful and moving. The Augmented 4th, or Tritonus, which spans three whole steps in the scale, is ...

Classical music has its own version of the tritone sub, which, of course, predated the jazz version. It results from the outer voices (usually soprano and bass) moving in contrary motion into the ...