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Diabolo in Musica is not the title of an Italo tune or a B-movie. It's a combination of 
two notes that you can play on any keyboard. For example if you hit a C-note and a F#-
note at the same time, you get the TRITONE a.k.a. the DEVIL's tone a.k.a. the DIABOLO 
IN MUSICA. Altho the sound of the tritone is perhaps a little bit ruff on the ears ~ at 
least when compared to other tonal combinations ~ it will definitely not do the same 
thing for you as spinning Led Zeppelin records backwards during a messy seance. The 
tritone is quite harmless from an eschatological point of view, and very useful for 
funky harmonies and jazzy chords with a bite. Even J.S. Bach used it all the time. So 
why did the tritone get a really bad rep? 

Blame the ancient Greek cult-leader Pythagoras, and the Christian Church. The ancient 
Greeks were really obsessed with harmony and they also wanted to create THE PERFECT 
STATE. The influential whole number ratio fetishist Pythagoras thought it would be a 
good idea to control people's minds with music played in certain scales. By playing 
only the 'legal' harmonies, and making other harmonies illegal, or even SINFUL, he 
started a war against the tritone. The Church picked up on this and started it's own 
crusade against the tritone. For ages, the harmonic theory of the Western culture was 
based on the principle of tritone avoidance. How strange.

If you want to know more about the history of musical mind control using musical scales 
and harmonies check out this free book by Richard Merrick called INTERFERENCE. It's 
pretty deep, revealing all kinds of secrets of the universe and throwing in conspiracy 
theories, entheogens and what have you.

by tony dubshot // dubbhism.org