 This chord, with its intensely Argentine connotations, appears "like sherbet between courses, to cleanse the palate" (Alison Dalton, violinist, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, interview by author of this article, 1996) throughout Ginastera's career, in nearly all of the genres in which he composed.Though a similar harmonic resonance is achieved by playing nearly any series of four perfect fourths and a major third, the ubiquitous chord is most frequently spelled as above in Ginastera's compositions, regardless of the tonal center (or lack thereof) of the piece in which the chord appears.Consequently, if "Triste" is to be performed in transposition, the performers must consider the specific sonority of the E-A-D-G-B-E chord and whether it too should be transposed or left as written.