Also, "Somewhere" ("There's a place for us") begins with a minor 7th.

Guy Hayden

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Andrew Stiller
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 10:02 AM
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Subject: Re: [Finale] O.T. Secco recitatives


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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