triteness
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In “Tristan und Isolde” Wagner tested the boundaries of tonality, building tension with harmonic suspensions, tritones and an arc of unresolved cadences that spans the entire opera.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2010
The ‘diabolical’ sound produced by F and B, a distance known as a tritone, is likewise produced by pairing Bt and E, E and A#, C and Gl>, and all the other possible tritones.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
