A 'tritone' is the name for the musical interval between two pitches an augmented 4th/Diminshed 5th apart. The term 'tritone' comes from the fact that the interval between the two pitches is a full three "whole tones" apart. The use of the tritone is common in classical music where the V-I resolution is present, as well as in Jazz and Rock whenever a piece or section is in the lydian mode. The interval has a very unstable characterisic and was even known as the 'devil's interval' at one period in music history.
Tritones can be heard in the following examples:
-Bass riff of "Jerry Was A Racecar Driver" by Primus
-The first two notes of "Maria" from West Side Story ("ma - ree")
-Opening intervals on "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix
-Opening two notes of the "The Simpsons" theme
A disease that afflicts most attendees at UCSD. Its origins are linked to the sheer lack of attractive people on campus. This results in UCSD students having ridiculously low standards for the opposite sex.
(State kid): Are you kidding me?! He's a chinless, bucktoothed wideclops! And he's always staring at me with that wall-eye of his. You totally have Triton Eye.
Back in the 60's a professor in Revelle accidentally lost an eye, and because of the chaos and hecticness of seeing someone lose an eye, the ambulance people forgot to pick it up. The eye was just left there and people were too grossed out by it, so no one really picked it up. Then one day, the eye was gone. They asked all the janitors if they picked it up but they all said no. Then one day, a girl was taking a shower in the revelle dorms, and when she looked on the floor, there was the professors eye. She screamed and ran to tell her friends, but when they went back to the shower it was gone. Legend has it that the eye roams around campus peeping on people, and it has been coined the name "Triton Eye".
if you're ever in your room and you feel like you're being watched, it's the tritoneye
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Girl: Hey , are you guys talking about the Triton Eye from https ://tritoneye. com
Guy#2: Yeah, How'd you know?
Girl: I follow them on Instagram @TritonEyeOfficial
Guy#1: Oh Wow!