Klarinet Archive - Posting 000625.txt from 2003/03

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Key signatures
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:49:59 -0500

Let me suggest a weird key signature, by Mozart of all people.

On at least 7 occasions, he deliberately wrote the clarinets parts in
the wrong key. For example, the c minor wind serenade, last movement
where the key changes from c minor to c major (concert pitch).

Well c minor for clarinets in b-flat is d minor which requires 1 flat.

But c major for clarinets in b-flat is d major which requires 2 sharps.
But Mozart does not write the part in 2 sharps. It would have been in
violation of the standard key signatures for clarinet. Instead, he
writes the clarinet part in the key of written c major and then adds the
sharps for f and c as the notes occur in the parts.

There is a perfectly good reason for him to do this thing, but that he
does it on at least 7 occasions is not well-known information.

Dan

B. Rite wrote:
> Obviously you can create any scale you wish with accidentals, but I'm
> wondering if any 'well known' compositions are printed with a weird key
> signature, such as (say) two flats but the flatted notes aren't Bb and
> Eb?
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