On Sat May 29, at SaturdayMay 29 10:02 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
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
Heh, heh, I did the same thing. Nowadays my students use "The
Simpsons" for the tritone (same three notes!) I point out to them
that the whole theme is HIGHLY reminiscent of "The Jetsons" and they
look at me blankly. No wonder some blatant plagiarism goes undetected.
Christopher
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