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Bulgari is also making history by adding a new tune to a range of chiming timepieces, introducing tritone harmonic intervals, created in collaboration with the Italian-Swiss conductor Lorenzo Viotti.—Luisa Zargani, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019 Then, as Claire looks into the eyes of a coyote and senses chaotic energies rising within her, the hum gravitates downward, with double-basses and piano slithering across the classically diabolical interval of the tritone.—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024 Something akin to obsession followed, as composers used tritones to probe the darker corners of nature and humanity.—Staff, Quartz, 25 Sep. 2024 Its official title, the tritone, was a chord or interval of notes that was dubbed Diabolus in musica (devil in music) due to its evil sounding harmony.—Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024 There’s a long tradition of the tritone in TV themes, like The Simpsons and The Jetsons.—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2021 From top, a punch of pattern by Giorgio Armani; Acne’s clean and lean look; an advanced tritone outfit by E. Tautz.—Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 28 June 2019 The chord seethes with unsettled dissonance, packed with half- and whole-step clashes and anxious tritones, yet its triadic backbone lends stability.—Matthew Guerrieri, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2018
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