dwineman:

lonelysandwich:

An actual tritone is a musical interval that spans three whole tones, and because it normally sounds horrible and dissonant and creates tension to be resolved into a perfect 5th, it’s historically known as Diabolus in Musica, or “the Devil’s interval” and was even suppressed by the Church in the Middle Ages.

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The consistency with which people resolve the paradox one way or the other for different pitches is evidence that absolute pitch is a not a rare gift but a common latent ability that can be learned.

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My absolute pitch is, strangely enough, B. I can’t be certain of why it is that pitch (one would think it should be Bb, as I was a trumpet major in college), but I think it’s related to the number of times I’ve listened to weezer’s My Name Is Jonas, which is tonally in B, and the first note is B (though it’s played in C because most of weezer’s early catalog was recorded with the instruments tuned down 1/2 step).