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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Donna Doyle asks: "<span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">[W]ho was the American songwriter who
played everything in C#M [sic?] on a transposing keyboard?"</span><br>
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Irving Berlin is who you are thinking of -- if you mean the
topical F#M (not C#). I discuss this facet of his song composition
(i.e., both the key and the <span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">transposing</span> piano) in my article
"Gambling with Chromaticism? Extra-Diatonic Melodic Expression in
the Songs of Irving Berlin," Theory and Practice 26 (2001): 21-85.<br>
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As Berlin said: "The black keys are right there under your
fingers. The key of C is for people who study music." (!)<br>
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--David<br>
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David Carson Berry, Ph.D.<br>
Associate Professor of Music Theory<br>
University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music<br>
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:david.berry@uc.edu">david.berry@uc.edu</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://uc.academia.edu/DavidCarsonBerry/">https://uc.academia.edu/DavidCarsonBerry/</a><br>
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