Klarinet Archive - Posting 000627.txt from 2003/03

From: CBA <clarinet10001@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Key signatures
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:07:53 -0500

I think what Bill is saying is the key signature isn't incorrect
for the way it is supposed to sound, but is incorrect in WHICH
notes are altered in the signature...say the key signature has 3
sharps, and they are A, B and D, INSTEAD of F, C, and G.

Kelly Abraham
Woodwinds - New Nork City
--- Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net> wrote:
> 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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