[Smt-talk] Scale degrees

[Olli Väisälä]

>
> Some keys just have not been that popular. I challenge the gang to  
> come up with standard repertoire pieces that are in F# major aside  
> from a death-defying symphony by Mahler, a nocturne and barcarolle  
> by Chopin, a romance by Schumann, and a sonata by Scriabin and  
> Scarlatti, and a book called Anthology of Horror in F-sharp Major  
> by Rene David Rivero. And, yes, I didn’t forget the WTC which  
> stands alone in the history of music for way too many reasons and  
> may prove that Bach was an extra-terrestrial.

Did you forget Beethoven's sonata op. 78? (I suppose that is not in  
the anthology.)

And, by the way, another question: are G-flat major pieces even less  
common? In this respect, I am sure Janaček specialists would have  
something to offer.

Best wishes,
Olli Väisälä
Sibelius Academy
University of the Arts, Helsinki
ovaisala at siba.fi

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