tritoneとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: trī'tōn IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪˌtəʊ̯n/
• (General American) enPR: trī'tōn, IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪˌtoʊn/, [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷaɪˌtʰoʊ̯n], [ˈt̠͡ʃɹ̠̊˔ʷäɪˌtʰoʊ̯n]

名詞

tritone (複数形 tritones)

1. (music) An interval of three whole tones.
   • 2007, February 17, “Ben Ratliff”, in For Some Unmellowed Metalheads, Middle Age Is Nothing to Fear‎^[1]:

     The mini-epic “Seasons in the Abyss,” with its ringing tritone interval at the beginning, its extended solos, its medium tempo, was as close as Slayer got to a groove.

   The tritone has a pitch ratio close to 17:12.

2. A picture printed in three shades.
   • 1995, Adele Droblas Greenberg; Seth Greenberg, “Converting from One Mode to Another”, in Fundamental Photoshop, second edition, Osborne McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 380:

     In Photoshop’s Duotone mode you can create monotones, duotones, tritones, and quadtones—grayscale images to which you add one, two, three, or four colors.

   • 2003, Duncan Evans, “Duotones and Tritones”, in A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Portrait Photography, AVA Publishing SA, →ISBN, page 115:

     When using tritones or quadtones (in which three colours are blended together) all the secondary colours are mixed together.

   • 2010, David Präkel, “Duotone”, in The Visual Dictionary of Photography, AVA Publishing SA, →ISBN, page 97:

     The two colours need not be black and grey; computer duotones can be created from a greyscale original in any two colours; tritones use three inks and quadtones four.

同意語

• devil's interval
• diabolus

略語s

• TT

派生語

• semitritone

参考

• augmented fourth
• diminished fifth