Klarinet Archive - Posting 000629.txt from 2003/03

From: "Joseph Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl]Key signatures
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:29:46 -0500

<< If a note did say otherwise, without identifying the piece as an
academic exercise, then I'd strongly suspect that the composer was one of
those self-absorbed, show-offy contrarians who's just got to be different,
always, even in situations where non-conforming doesn't make any sense. >>

This kind of "non-conforming" can make perfect sense in, for example, the
case of writing modal music. Nothing "self-absorbed" or "show-offy" about
it, just the case that there exist other scales than the standard major or
minor---and these can necessitate other key signatures.

-- Joe

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