Open fifths, fourths and tritones, modality and whole-tone scales abound. |
With its visceral tritones and flatted seconds, the band's sound revolved more around the riff than the song. |
It also sounds heavily dissonant due to tone clusters and many tritones. |
The tritones from whichWagner's Tristan had yearned to be released have become, monodically, a positive, as the Flesh becomes Word, to complement theWord's becoming Flesh. |
It's a row you can hum, for it emphasizes thirds and fourths, rather than seconds and tritones. |