[Smt-talk] Pieces in F-sharp major

[reinifrosch at bluewin.ch]

Dear colleagues,
During my first years of piano lessons (many decades ago) I liked to improvise in F#-major because the thirds sounded especially nice. That is understandable if one assumes that the piano was tuned approximately in Pythagorean(C); see, e.g., Section 7.3 (The "Pythagorean" Tuning) of my book "Meantone Is Beautiful" (Peter Lang, Bern, 2002).

Reinhart Frosch,
Dr. phil. nat.,
CH-5200 Brugg.
reinifrosch at bluewin.ch .

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Von : huron.1 at osu.edu
Datum : 19/05/2014 - 15:34 (UTC)
An : smt-talk at societymusictheory.org
Betreff : [Smt-talk]  Pieces in F-sharp major

The "cheaters" way to identify lots of pieces in F-sharp major is to
use Themefinder (themefinder.org). It displays a purported 139 matches
for themes in F-sharp major, starting with Albéniz, Aubert, Barber, Bach, etc.

To be sure, these are THEMES rather than WORKS, but if you limit yourself
to first themes, these are mostly correct, but the results are mixed with a
lot of spurious matches as well.

David Huron
School of Music
Ohio State University