Klarinet Archive - Posting 000638.txt from 2003/03

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Key signatures
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 13:46:12 -0500

I understood what he said in his note. But he was asking for weird key
signatures, so I expanded what he had said to give him something even
more than that for which he asked.

Dan

CBA wrote:
> 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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