| With its visceral tritones and flatted seconds, the band's sound revolved more around the riff than the song. |
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| It's a row you can hum, for it emphasizes thirds and fourths, rather than seconds and tritones. |
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| Open fifths, fourths and tritones, modality and whole-tone scales abound. |
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| It also sounds heavily dissonant due to tone clusters and many tritones. |
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| 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. |
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