Klarinet Archive - Posting 000356.txt from 2000/10

From: Peter Jaques <klez23@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] All keys are not the same
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 17:54:25 -0400

re: the social perceptions of key... i play klezmer & turkish music, & one
of the main keys/scales/makams used in this stuff, hijaz, is basically a
phrygian with a major 3d instead of a minor one. this makes the I chord
major, of course. Yet people--musicians or not--inevitably refer to it as a
minor key if i'm playing something sad/slow, & a major one if i'm playing
something happy & upbeat, often even if it's exactly the same melody sped
up!

peter

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Peter Jaques <klez23@-----.com>
http://cs.oberlin.edu/~pjaques
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