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  • noun Plural form of tritone.

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Examples

  • I'll take my comic aliens from MiB thanks The chariot race took half the movie it seemed so turned off by EpI we didn't ever see EpII and could care even less about EpIII the original was the best, and only coz of effects the story line is for children give me blade runner sequel THEN I'll wait in line a few days making oragami and playing tension filled tritones on an analog synth

    dark side of the horse 2005

  • God will be played by a six-foot-tall gay Nigerian named Chris, who sits above the action singing the words "I am, I am" in ominous tritones, often sadly flat.

    Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

  • Metal has always depended on a feeling of "diabolus in musica" (if not on actual tritones), and if instead it has "the minor fall, the major lift" of a pious hallelujah, it'll lack the threatening charge the music needs-to put it secularly, it'll suck.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Metal has always depended on a feeling of "diabolus in musica" (if not on actual tritones), and if instead it has "the minor fall, the major lift" of a pious hallelujah, it'll lack the threatening charge the music needs-to put it secularly, it'll suck.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Metal has always depended on a feeling of "diabolus in musica" (if not on actual tritones), and if instead it has "the minor fall, the major lift" of a pious hallelujah, it'll lack the threatening charge the music needs-to put it secularly, it'll suck.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Metal has always depended on a feeling of "diabolus in musica" (if not on actual tritones), and if instead it has "the minor fall, the major lift" of a pious hallelujah, it'll lack the threatening charge the music needs-to put it secularly, it'll suck.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • “Isn't it true, “ I say, “that every girl, from uptown to Panic Park, from Soho to Stockholm, has under their bed a tin can Harry, echoing in tritones, heart of springs?

    Manhattan Love Stories #5: Suicide Birds (sic) David Woodruff 2011

  • Some of the dissonance in Clemens’s music arises from his treating motivic transposition rather rigidly, with an apparent unconcern for the tritones – some melodic and others harmonic – that result.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Speakin’ as teh Diva, ders not much more ebiler dan de tritones 4 de moosishun!

    IM HIT! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

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