Klarinet Archive - Posting 000630.txt from 2003/03

From: Anne Bell <bell@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl]Key signatures
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:31:41 -0500

#10 has an Ab only. The range is d-ab- so if my theory doesn't fail me,
it is an octatonic scale.
Anne

At 08:10 AM 3/16/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Anne,
>
>When you say ALTERNATE key signatures (since I am not familiar
>with the Bartok pieces you mentioned) do you mean something like
>G## (double sharp), or do you mean odd signatures we can't give
>a name to, because they don't correspond with the circle of
>fifths by any name, because of the scale that results from the
>signature?
>
>Kelly Abraham
>Woodwinds - New York City
>--- Anne Bell <bell@-----.net> wrote:
>> Bartok used alternate key signatures in Mikrokosmos (153
>> teaching pieces
>> written originally for his son) as early as #10- in the first
>> book. There
>> are also instances of different signatures for each hand
>> though by the 5th
>> & 6th books the signatures are pretty much abandoned.
>> Anne
>
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