[Smt-talk] Scale degrees

[Steve Haflich]

Don't forget the legend that Irving Berlin -- self taught on piano --
learned to play only in the key of F#.  He apparently composed in that key,
although he performed on a transposing piano as necessary.  Videos exist
and are easy to find.

Honorable mention should also go to Haydn.  The Menuetto and Trio of
Symphony 45 (Farewell) is in F# major, as is the famous ending of the final
movement.

Steve Haflich
unaffiliated
Berkeley CA
shaflich at gmail.com


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:49 AM, <benjamin.downs at gmail.com> wrote:

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