Favorite Key Signatures?
C Minor, E minor, Eb Major, Bb Minor, G minor, Eb Minor.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
ditto all minor keys
In the past people have used other tuning systems, such as "mean temperament" and "well temperament". (The point of Bach's "Well-Tempered Keyboard" prelude-and-fugue pairs was to illustrate the keys in an effort to get well-temperament widely adopted.) You may be interested to search Youtube for some comparisons...my net is slow right now so I can't.
Mean temperament, in particular, was known for screwing over some of the more rarely-used keys.
B major
E major
F# minor
C major
Ab minor (but not G# minor, oddly. though sometimes. maybe.)
Bb major
C minor
D minor
Eb minor (maybe D# minor?)
or something like that. Ask me on a different day and D minor might not be on there but G minor might be instead. It varies.
choice of key doesn't matter _that_ much to me, though. It just becomes woven into the identity of a piece of music. For example, Omoi wo Kanadete uses E-flat major's feeling of "ordinary"-ness along with specific other cues (melodic and harmonic ones, I think) to give off a tinge of nostalgia.
Thanks for the explanations.
it's just, well, the terminology goes a bit over my head, and i'm struggling to visualize it in concrete terms.
these are entirely new concepts to me
admittedly i failed to complete the course the first time round (scraped an E the second time)
In fact a D itself is failing in many situations, just not always.
Then again, my music theory education was mainly focused on western classical music, and on the so-called "common practice period" (roughly 1600 to 1900), and on topics like form, harmony, style, instrumentation, and compositional and performance practices, rather than instrument design or tuning. I have rather little knowledge of non-western tuning traditions, or things like quarter-tone innovations in the 20th century.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Back in the day, people used different...um, values, for two different tuning parameters. I guess that's what you could call them.
One's the way you space the notes in an octave. There's twelve half-steps in an octave, but you can space them a little differently and make certain keys sound nicer than others. (If they're all spaced the same, all keys sound equally as "nice" or sensible or whatever.) Back in the day, they didn't necessarily space the notes the same ("equal temperament"), but sometimes they used schemes called "meantone" or "well temperament".
The other's where you pin this spacing pattern. So you have a treble-clef second-space A note. You can space stuff differently after you figure out where the A is, but you still gotta decide where that A is. These days, A is usually tuned to a frequency of 440 hertz. Back in they day, they did 415 Hz or even 392 Hz. A little lower.