Right--didn't Bach and Shostakovich (among others) make it a point to right keyboard music in all 24 keys?
Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [Finale] TAN: transposing standards downward > At 12:06 AM -0500 2/13/07, Christopher Smith wrote: > >On Feb 12, 2007, at 10:53 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: > > > >>In this particular case I happen to have another problem which I > >>didn't even bring up: what happens if the singer wants it in a key > >>that the piano part resists? It turns out that my singer's favored > >>key is Db major, > > I realize this wasn't the point of Mark's post, but it caught my eye. > In preparing to do an Andrew Lloyd Webber medley about 15 years ago, > I listened to all the shows, and was surprised to discover that all > the big songs were, in fact, in the key of Db! > > How can a piano part "resist" a key? I can see a pianist without > chops getting upset, but those guys like Chopin and Debussy seemed to > like keys with lots of black keys! I've been told (not a pianist > myself) that C major is the most awkward key for a pianist, given > that our fingers are all different lengths. > > John > > > -- > John & Susie Howell > Virginia Tech Department of Music > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240 > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
