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| | Tritone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The tritone, as its name implies, is a musical interval that spans three whole tones or six semitones. |
 | | The roots of the chord progression, C F# D G# are two tritones, and the European siren-like riff played atop the chords, alternating first E and Bb, then F# and C, consists of tritones. |
 | | Film composer Bernard Herrman uses the tritone to great effect in his score for the film The Day the Earth Stood Still, where the interval functions as a motif, played by low brass, for Klaatu's robot Gort. |
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