[Smt-talk] F# Major

[Patrick McCreless]

Hi, all,

For what it's worth, there's a piece of scholarship that is quite relevant
to this (amazingly extensive) discussion:  Hugh Macdonald, [Key Signature
of G-Flat Major], *19th-Century Music *11/3 (1988).  (His title is given in
brackets, as it is in RILM, because the actual title in the journal has no
words; it's just a musical staff, with a treble clef and key signature of 6
flats, and a meter indication of 9/8, which he relates in various ways to
G-Flat Major.)  The article, of course, about G-flat, not F#, but Macdonald
refers to quite a few pieces in F# major, and he has some engaging thoughts
about the use of both keys in the 19th century.  And he doesn't slight
opera! (Meyerbeer, Berlioz, Wagner...)  I don't necessarily agree with
everything he says, but there's much to be learned there.

Patrick McCreless
Department of Music
Yale University
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