The abundance of
minor tonality, dark and strange scoring and melodic intervals of a minor
second and third all make up the 'tinta ' of Macbeth, just as the leaping
sixths (soh to mi) and vigorous upward scale s precipitate that of Ernani,
and the pentatonics, the paralle l sixth s an d th e barcarol e rhythm s tha t
of Simon Boccanegra.
