Diabolus in Musica

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"mi contra fa Diabolus est in musica" Diabolus in Musica was a medieval term for the tritone (augmented fourth or diminished fifth). It divides the octave into two equal parts (in this case C and F#. In the medieval system of church modes the tritone was most conspicuous as the interval between the final and the fourth degree of the modes on F, the Lydian and Hypolydian. The first mention of the word "tritonus" seems to be in the 9th or 10th century organum treatise "Musica Enchiriadis", though it was not explicitly prohibited until the development of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal system. From then until the end of the Renaissance the tritone, nicknamed Diabolus in Musica, was regarded as a dangerous interval associated with evil and was banned by the church as being thought to summon Satan. Those found using the chord were routinely subjected to slow torturous death by genital mutilation and the administering of such implements as the skull crusher, the breast breaker and the wheel. Burnings at the stake were also favoured. REPETITITITITION; MONOTOTOTOTONY; HYPNONONONOSIS, NO, SIS. NO, SIS. NO, SIS, the sensory depriver, the HYPNOTIST, controls the environment. I CONTROL THE VOLUME THE FREQUENCIES THE LIGHT STIMULUS YOUR EPILEPSY "I CONTROL THE VERTICAL. I CONTROL THE HORIZONTAL. THE LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE. I AM GRAVITY. LET YOUR MIND SUCCUMB, SUCK NUMB: send the outer face into outer space and let the vacuum do its job, it very job let it rob us of form and firmness let our identities squander while we fondle and wander, cast the settings aside, fly cut the fry and begin to dry let go with all yo might VACATE THE PREMISES INTO THE WILD BLUE YONDER WANDER INTO THE WILD BLUE BLUNDER AND TEAR IT A FUCKIN SUNDER, BROTHER the void is so deep and gaping you can watch it forever

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