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Tonally Matrimony

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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”

One Comment

  1. Los Doggies says:

    Thanks Brian!

    There’ll be a special Solar Music post for ya, once I work out all the science involved.