Klarinet Archive - Posting 000949.txt from 2000/10

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: RE: [kl] Minor key - Mendelssohn Octet
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:01:38 -0400

<><> Ed Lacy wrote:
I'm not quite following this. Why would the composer want to avoid minor
intervals? Minor intervals occur in music in major keys as well. If he
wanted it to sound major, wouldn't he write it in a major key?
As for the word "want", I don't know. It's just that I was
thinking about major vs. minor while I was waiting for the octet
recording to arrive, and the possibility occurred to me.
It's no accident that Manny the Mynah is a "Major" Mynah. This
entire topic is important and meaningful to me.

<><> The most likely explanation for the F natural is that it would
be the seventh of the secondary dominant of the subdominant, a
frequently-used harmonic device. That would be unlikely to have anything
to do with the tonic key of the piece.

...uh oh, I need to do some more reading. I may have something
more to say (or ask) once I understand what these words mean. <rueful
smile>

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