Klarinet Archive - Posting 000349.txt from 2000/02

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] A sharp
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 19:38:46 -0500

For enharmonically equivalent keys, no. of sharps + no. of flats @-----. So
A# has TEN sharps.
And ---- quite a few modern composers do write all their tunes in C, or,
at
any rate, without a key signature. This doesn't necessarily mean they're
easy to transpose....
Roger Shilcock

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Leighton Bingham wrote:

> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 09:14:50 -0700
> From: Leighton Bingham <cassus@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] A sharp
>
>
>
> Dee D. Hays wrote:
>
> > To notate something as the concert key of A sharp would be a bit unusual.
> > However, A sharp is the same as Bb. Thus if something is written in A sharp
> > (i.e. Bb), the equivalent key for the Bb clarinet is the key of C.
> >
> > Dee Hays
> > Canton, SD
>
> Dear MS. Hays
> I should just get a book out of the library and find this out for myself. But,
> Just how many sharps are in A sharp? The range on my software is from 6 flats to
> 6 sharps and none of them are called A sharp. Also if A sharp = B flat why
> bother with two names for the same key? Indeed why bother with sharps and flats
> anyway can't you write all the tunes in C? I mean they can all be transposed to
> C
> --
> Leighton Bingham
> Simplex optimus
>
>
>
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