[Smt-talk] Scale degrees

[benjamin.downs at gmail.com]

Liszt adds a few members to the F# major club that are all fairly standard:
his *Benediction de Dieu dans la Solitude* from *Harmonies poétiques et
religieuses*, the Andante from his B-minor sonata (do movements count?),
and *Les jeux d'eaux a la Villa d'Este*.

Ben



Benjamin Downs
PhD candidate
Graduate Council Fellow
Stony Brook University
Staller 2321
benjamin.downs at gmail.com


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Olli Väisälä <ovaisala at siba.fi> wrote:

>
>
> 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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