Klarinet Archive - Posting 000655.txt from 2003/03

From: Peter Jaques <clarinet@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl]Key signatures
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 17:10:54 -0500

can you give examples of some of the key signatures he used? I wonder if
this might be due to his interest in Hungarian & Balkan music, which tend
to use Turkish-inspired scales quite often.

peter jaques

On 16 Mar 03, 10:55AM, Anne Bell 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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