Dave Barnett wrote:
> Looks like unambiguous G major to me. The people's key. A single
> accidental (the sharped 4th degree in this case in a chromatic
> scale passage) does not imply modal ambiguity. The C naturals in
>the upbeats to both sections are very convincing.
I have two rather extreme views on this.
1) The A part seems to resolve, and I really mean resolve not just finish, on
D and the part has a range of D to d which sounds like D myxolidian. (I'm
not concerned about the C#. That's just a decoration.) There is a sense of
a key change into the second part and although it uses all the notes of G
major and ends on G that doesn't really seem to do it justice. The range of
E to e is a bit odd and it doesn't really seem to resolve on the final G. It
doesn't quite seem to stop, which is probably why it gets followed by Scans
Tester's No 1, a more conventional G major tune.
2) I don't care! It's a great tune. It sounds good.
Everything in 1) is just analysis, not facts about the tune. Sticking K:G or
better still K:^f on the front tells you all you need to know about what
notes to play.
As I've tried to say all along, the tune is more important than the label you
stick on the front.
Bryan Creer
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