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Does the key of a piece really matter?

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tram:

--- Quote from: Romperait on January 01, 2011, 11:20:58 am ---I haven't touched theory of any sort for five years, but I remember my teacher mentioning something about the pianos (or whatever they used) used centuries ago had slightly different intervals between the keys, meaning transposition would not be an option unless you wanted to distort the music.

Could this have had some implications on what role each key was generally accepted to have?

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This is completed true, the same piece transposed into a different key will sound different, this is why covers of songs can sound off if thy have been transposed. It is not so much the piano that is the problem but the notes themselves and their inherrent harmonics that make each Key unique and thus affecting how we 'see' a key

ninwa:

--- Quote from: natalie.krystal7 on December 31, 2010, 08:31:03 pm ---Every key, when not taken in the strictest musically theoretical sense is a sharp and flat of another really...
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Very true, but every key still has a more common and less common form. E.g. you wouldn't usually think of Bb major as A# major (think I've learned maybe one piece in my whole life which was actually in A# major)

Also, we need a music forum, yay/nay?

gossamer:
^ Agreed, and also yay ;) :)

/0:
yay :D

Romperait:
Nay! ;)

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