![]() There are no "names" for the semitones in the way you're describing it - especially comparing it to "supertonic" and so on. It's not that you suck at search engnining, but that you don't know what term to search for! Not in jazz, and definitely not in rock! Everyone would just say "flat 5" or "flat 6", adding the word "chord" to make it clear they didn't just mean the note. I've never come across real musicians talking in that way though. Or an Ab chord in C major referred to as the "flat submediant". But you might well see a Gb major chord (in C major) referred to as "bV" (flat dominant). ![]() I.e., although the Gb note is the "flat dominant" note, I don't see much (or any) need to refer to the note itsel in that way. The only time one might need to use scale degree terms (or to understand them when seeing them in books) is for chords. Strictly speaking (enharmonically), a b5 is therefore not a "tritone", although few of us would be pedantic enough to insist! (Any obsessive compulsive etymologists in the house? ) F-B, likewise, is an "augmented 4th" wherever you find it - and is a literal "tritone" because it's "three tones" stacked (F-G-A-B). B-F is a "diminished 5th", in the key of C major - or whatever other key it might occur in (chromatically). The point here is that interval names describe any pair of notes, not necessarily measured from the tonic. Of course, in common parlance they would be "flat 5" and "sharp 4", and there is an obvious overlap with interval names: "diminished 5th" and "augmented 4th". I.e., if you were referring to a Gb note in the key of C as a scale degree, it would be (I guess) the "flat dominant". The others you mention are scale degree names. Click to expand."tritone" is an interval.
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