Taris Flashpaw wrote:
Hi all
I've run into a bit of a quandary with the finale to a work I'm
currently trying to finish (which has been ongoing for about five
years). The fourth movement (of five) is a lovely passacaglia and the
bass line (on which the whole movement is based) only ever cadences
when another repetition follows it (it ends with a V7 and starts with a
i chord), so naturally, come the end of the movement, the cadence is
nowhere to be found. My intentions are to have an attacca into the
fifth movement and have the final i chord of the passacaglia kick off
the finale (of course, modulating to the new key).
Here's my problem. The passacaglia is in D minor and the Finale is in B
minor. What key signature should I use for the start of the Finale?
Should I use D minor to easier show the modulations, or should I notate
the whole thing in B minor (the modulation will only take a few bars,
so by bar 10, it will be in B minor). I see it as kind of pointless to
use a key signature for only ten bars and then change it...
What would you recommend?
I would make the key signature B minor for the finale, right from the start.
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David H. Bailey
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