Oh, those tritons solfege!

Often, the music school is asked to build tritons at home. Tritons SolfeggioOf course, they are not related to the Greek god of the sea depths, Triton, and also to the animal world, in general, too.

Tritons are intervals that are called like that, because between the sounds of these intervals there is no more, no less, but exactly three tones. Actually, two intervals are referred to as tritons: an increased quart and a reduced fifth.

If you remember, in a clean quarte 2.5 tones, and in a clean quinte - 3.5, this is how it turns out that if you increase the quart by half a tone and lower the fifth, then their tone value will be equal and equal to three.

You can read about simple intervals (about quart and fifth) here.

In any key you need to be able to find two pairs of newts. The pair is uv₄ and mind₅that mutually appeal to each other. One pair of newts is always in natural major and minor, the second pair is in harmonic major and minor (pair of characteristic newts).

To help you here is such a sign on solfeggio - tritons on the steps of the fret.

From this table it is immediately clear that the increased quarts are either on the IV, or on the VI step, and the reduced quints are either on the II step, or on the VII. It is important to remember that in the harmonic major the sixth stage is reduced, and in the harmonic minor the seventh level is increased.

How are tritons resolved?

There is one general rule: extended intervals increase in resolution, reduced ones decrease. In this case, the unstable sounds of tritons pass into the next stable ones. Therefore,₄ always resolved in sixth and the mind₅ - to the third.

Moreover, if the resolution of a triton occurs in natural major or minor, the sixth will be small, the third will be large. If the resolution of newts occurs in harmonic major or minor, then, on the contrary, the sixth will be large, and the third will be small.

Let's look at a couple of examples on solfeggio: tritons in the key in C major, C minor, D major and D minor in natural and harmonic form. In the example, each new line is a new key.

Well, now, I think, much has become clearer. I remind you that today the focus of our attention was Tritons solfege. Remember, yes, that there are three tones in them, and you need to be able to find two pairs in each key (in natural and harmonic form).

It remains for me to add that sometimes at solfeggio newts are asked not only to build, but also to sing. It is difficult to sing the sounds of a triton right away, this trick will help: first, not a triton, but a clean fifth, is sung to itself, and then also the top sound goes down a semitone mentally, after such preparation the triton sings easier.