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Article #3823Re: Addictive Keys??!??
From: Brian Gordon
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1990 01:41
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1990 01:41
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In article <1758@rex.cs.tulane.edu> boswell@rex.UUCP (Albert Boswell) writes: > I know that certain composers are attracted to different keys > Beethoven loved Cm and E-flat as many of his famous works show. > Mozart's favorite pathos key was Gm I have read. > > I'm sure modern composers also have favorite keys for whatever > reason. [...] For example, Irving Berlin composed only in F# Major. Since he wasn't that much of a pianist -- but did have the bucks -- he had himself an F# piano built (its apparent C scale was actually an F# scale). Eventually he had one as fancy as a harp, with pedals to transpose to various keys, but still stuck to F# for his own composing. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Brian G. Gordon briang@Corp.Sun.COM (if you trust exotic mailers) | | ...!sun!briangordon (if you route it yourself) | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!bari!briang From: briang@bari.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.music Subject: Re: Addictive Keys??!?? Message-ID: <130011@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 9 Jan 90 01:41:55 GMT References: <136000003@peg> <1758@rex.cs.tulane.edu> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: briang@sun.UUCP (Brian Gordon) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 18