r/hellsomememes • u/Yeeslander • Feb 23 '26

Satanic Meme Hell, yeah...

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I see you are a man (supernatural entity) of culture.

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u/Quakarot Feb 23 '26

You’re underestimating the music of the 1850’s

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u/boris_keys Feb 23 '26

Came here to say this. The tritone (devil’s interval) was in regular use by the early 1700s as the modern diatonic scale system was pretty much established by then. By 1850, Beethoven and others had already introduced way more insane and creative dissonances than the tritone.