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In the softer sections, the melody is carried by a contrabassoon; other higher-pitched instruments like strings carry the melody in louder sections. | In the softer sections, the melody is carried by a contrabassoon; other higher-pitched instruments like strings carry the melody in louder sections. | ||
The augmented 4th or tritone, an interval comprising three whole tones (hence its name), features heavily in the melody line, not as a direct interval, but as part of the scale used. C | The augmented 4th or tritone, an interval comprising three whole tones (hence its name), features heavily in the melody line, not as a direct interval, but as part of the scale used. C Romanian minor has C and F#, an example of a tritone; the same with G Romanian minor which contains G and C#. Tritones were historically considered one of the "unstable," "restless," "dangerous" intervals. Tritones and other intervals like it have been historically referred to as ''diabolus in musica'', intervals with symbolic associations with the devil, used to suggest "evil" in music. Given that the Underworld is the realm of Hades, one of the evil characters in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', the use of a tritone to invoke the idea of evil is only natural. | ||
==Albums== | ==Albums== | ||
