Do Other Musical Intervals Create a Creepy Sound Like the Devil's Interval?

  • Thread starter Thread starter symbolipoint
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Interval
Join the discussion
Registration is free. Ask a follow-up in this thread, or start your own.
3 replies · 2K views
Messages
7,759
Reaction score
2,177
Are there other intervals that do what this one does? I poked around briefly on a guitar to try to check another couple of oddball chords to see which intervals were making it sound odd, but I could not see a match to any augmented 4th.

(the kind of tones or NOTES combined which make music scary or creepy)
 
Physics news on Phys.org
The ‘devils interval’ stuff is a myth - there was never any ecclesiastical ban on its use, and can find it in medieval and renaissance sacred music, although as a dissonance it was treated carefully. A dominant 7th, with the tritone between 3 and 7 is not particularly creepy.

The classic metal creepy arpeggio is a minor add 9, the grip would be x02410 (frets from the 6th through 1st string)