People actually get married to this chord. At least in the Anglosphere they do. It’s from Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March”. After a monotonal ceremony of gifts, vows, and proclamation, this dissonant chord kicks in on pipe organ. It’s an A minor 6th, which has the satanic interval between the F# and C known as a tritone. Let’s give this matrimonial tritone a nice portmanteau name. Something like…Matritoney (mā’trə-tō’nē)?
The “Wedding March”, like the “Happy Birthday Song”, and other old standbys are declining in popularity. Instead of Wagner and Mendelssohn, people wed to auto-tuned R & B dance-marches.
But prerecorded music won’t last forever…
Beware:
Lest weddings be silent, your children might have to learn to sing!
“Wedding March”
Keep up the good work. In case you missed it, check this out. the music of the sun:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7840201/Music-of-the-sun-recorded-by-scientists.html
Thanks Brian!
There’ll be a special Solar Music post for ya, once I work out all the science involved.