In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country

Quick question, because I suddenly can't find anything on the net about this. I read that the song is based around a certain type of chord or triad or something, hell if I remember. All I know is it was a supposed forbidden sound in the church way back then or something and they called it the devil's tone or something?

I completely forgot where I read this and google isn't finding anything. Anybody know what I'm talking about?

Nah, that's what google keeps thinking too just because I type devil :p But I'm 100% it was IABPOITC, especially since that song uses an organ, which was what churches were all about back then, no? I remember specifically reading the thing about it using a forbidden chord or triad or some word that I can't come up with.

  On 4/5/2010 at 7:25 AM, Bramsworth said:

Quick question, because I suddenly can't find anything on the net about this. I read that the song is based around a certain type of chord or triad or something, hell if I remember. All I know is it was a supposed forbidden sound in the church way back then or something and they called it the devil's tone or something?

 

I completely forgot where I read this and google isn't finding anything. Anybody know what I'm talking about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritone

just change the cadence of the following and i think you have the base of In a Beautiful

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Septimal_diminished_fifth_on_C.mid

Tritone, that's it. Still can't find anything on Google, I wonder where it was I read about that now.

maybe consecutive fifths or something like that? i have no idea.

Wait, are you talking mixolydian scales or something?

i believe what youre talking about is the devil's interval...

heres an article with some info

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/oct/12/popandrock.classicalmusicandopera

it's a flatted fifth, it (was) called musica in diabola, and you could be burnt at the stake for using it in the sixteenth century

^ahem*

"diabolus in musica"

As you were.

curse my lack of latin!

It's ok, you make amazing mandelbox pix.

Slayer knows all about it!

Slayer fans might come across as slightly deranged meatheads. However the band has taught me a whole load of stuff about nazi war criminals (Joseph Mengle), serial killers (Ed Gein) and all kinds of nasty stuff that goes on in the world. Jeff Hanneman is in actual fact is quite a good songwriter, when he can be bothered.

Highbrow BoC fans may scoff at Slayer but if The Devil really is in the Details. Then Slayer do the Devil in the Details very well.

Ask yourself, could you listen to Dead Skin Mask on drugs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabolus_in_Musica

Slayer and Boards of Canada mentioned in the same paragraph! Hahah brilliant.

  On 4/6/2010 at 2:33 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

so which chord is it? If I had to guess, I'd say the first in the progression, or maybe the third.

it's not a chord, it's an interval. i dunno off the top of my head what key ABPOITC is in, but the flatted fifth of C is F#

edit: phaelam has the details up there.

  On 4/7/2010 at 1:14 AM, nene multiple assgasms said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akt3awj_Ah8

the definitive use of the tritone imo.