On May 28, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:

The other thing that is structurally very cool (hah!) about West Side Story is that the whole thing is based around the tritone interval... Many of the tunes use the tritone melodically in prominent position.

In my youth, I used the beginning of "Maria" to help my sight singing of tritones, and I've also pointed it out to others for the same purpose

--Andrew

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