The term is also sometimes used in telephony to describe the special information tones, a sequence of three tones played to indicate a technical announcement. This is unrelated to the musical usage.
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The tritone is a restless interval, classed as a dissonance in common practice music; less dissonant than the second or seventh, but given the name diabolus in musica ("the Devil's interval") by some from the early music era to the baroque period.
The tritone occurs naturally between the 4th and 7th scale degrees of the major scale (for example, in C major F to B), and depending on which of the two notes occurs in the bass, it is either an augmented 4th, or a diminished 5th.
In jazz harmony, the tritone is both part of the dominant chord and its substitute dominant (also known as the sub V chord).
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