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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #50 on: November 22, 2012, 11:27:17 PM
Clementi Sonatina Op. 36 No. 3

E-flat minor

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #51 on: November 23, 2012, 02:23:03 PM
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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #52 on: November 23, 2012, 02:25:36 PM
E-flat minor

Rachmaninov's Etude Tableau Op.39 No.5 in E flat Minor.

D flat Major
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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #53 on: November 23, 2012, 02:49:51 PM
Debussy Reflets Dans L'Eau from Images

G Minor

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #54 on: November 23, 2012, 11:07:46 PM
G Minor

Medtner - Sonata in G minor, Op.22

B flat major
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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #55 on: November 23, 2012, 11:15:53 PM
Promenade from pictures at an exhibition

E Major

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #56 on: November 24, 2012, 06:52:12 AM
Etude No. 12 from Alkan's Douze etudes dans tous les ton majeurs, Op. 35

A flat major

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #57 on: November 25, 2012, 02:35:45 PM
Beethoven Sonata Op. 26

D-sharp minor

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #58 on: November 25, 2012, 05:28:08 PM
Scriabin Mazurka Op 3, No 5

C sharp minor

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #59 on: November 25, 2012, 05:56:39 PM
Chopin Fantaisie-Impromptu (the middle is in D-flat major)

G-sharp minor

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #60 on: November 26, 2012, 01:27:25 PM
G-sharp minor

Liszt's La Campanella from Douze Etudes de Paganini, S.141

G Major
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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #61 on: November 26, 2012, 09:01:50 PM
Rach Prelude Op. 32 No. 5

F Major
Currently learning -

- Bach: P&F in F Minor (WTC 2)
- Chopin: Etude, Op. 25, No. 5
- Beethoven: Sonata, Op. 31, No. 3
- Scriabin: Two Poems, Op. 32
- Debussy: Prelude Bk II No. 3

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #62 on: November 26, 2012, 09:44:39 PM
Brahms Hungarian Dance No 7

G flat major

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #63 on: November 26, 2012, 10:25:02 PM
Chopin Etude 10/5

D minor

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #64 on: November 26, 2012, 11:04:16 PM
Bach - The art of fugue

B flat major
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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #65 on: November 26, 2012, 11:14:35 PM
B flat major

Schubert Sonata in Bb major D.960 (Schubert's last sonata)

G minor
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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #66 on: November 27, 2012, 12:47:56 AM
Schubert Sonata in Bb major D.960 (Schubert's last sonata)

G minor

Rachmaninoff sonata for piano and cello

c# major
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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #67 on: November 27, 2012, 02:03:07 AM
Ravel Ondine from Gaspard De La Nuit (this is its key signature/tonic key but it certainly doesn't sound like C# Major!)

F-sharp major

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #68 on: November 27, 2012, 04:39:49 AM
Ravel Ondine from Gaspard De La Nuit (this is its key signature/tonic key but it certainly doesn't sound like C# Major!)

F-sharp major

Scriabin sonata 5

Something atonal, and I mean TRUE atonal, I don't want any of that late Scriabin, John cage stuff, I mean that high quality atonal!
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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #69 on: November 27, 2012, 04:46:22 AM
Scriabin sonata 5

Something atonal, and I mean TRUE atonal, I don't want any of that late Scriabin, John cage stuff, I mean that high quality atonal!

But Scriabin's seventh sonata is awesome.

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #70 on: November 27, 2012, 05:00:57 AM
But Scriabin's seventh sonata is awesome.

It's not atonal!!!

It's just not in your 12 traditional keys.
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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #71 on: November 27, 2012, 05:05:00 AM
It's not atonal!!!

It's just not in your 12 traditional keys.

Isn't that the definition of atonal?

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #72 on: November 27, 2012, 05:22:13 AM
I mean that high quality atonal!

A: Liszt's Bagatelle Sans Tonalitie S216a

Q: Something serial, but tonal.
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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #73 on: November 27, 2012, 05:26:40 AM
Isn't that the definition of atonal?

If you can sing a note and it's coherent throughout the piece, then it's tonal.

What about whole tone scale?  It's not in a key is it? 

Trust me, when you hear something atonal, YOU'LL KNOW.
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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #74 on: November 27, 2012, 09:34:51 AM
high quality atonal!
Messiaen - Le Chocard des Alpes from Catalogue d'Oiseaux

C minor
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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #75 on: November 27, 2012, 10:51:32 AM
Mozart Sonata in C minor K.457

B flat minor

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #76 on: November 27, 2012, 01:31:20 PM
Chopin Nocturne Op. 9 No. 1

E minor

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #77 on: November 30, 2012, 10:28:40 AM
Brahms - Intermezzo Op 116, No 5

A minor

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #78 on: November 30, 2012, 01:05:12 PM
Liszt Paganini Etude 6

D major

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #79 on: November 30, 2012, 07:54:56 PM
Grieg, Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

A flat major

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #80 on: December 01, 2012, 04:01:57 AM
Chaminade Scarf-Dance, Air de Ballet No. 3

A major

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #81 on: December 01, 2012, 04:09:51 AM
Liszt - Mephisto Waltz No. 1

C-sharp minor

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #82 on: December 01, 2012, 12:42:36 PM
Brahms Intermezzo Op 117, No 3

G major

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #83 on: December 01, 2012, 02:08:26 PM
Beethoven Sonata Op. 49 No. 2

G-flat major

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #84 on: December 01, 2012, 08:46:51 PM
G-flat major

Schubert's Impromptu Op.90 No.3

F sharp Major
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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #85 on: December 01, 2012, 09:40:43 PM
Grieg Lyric Piece Til Varen/To Spring

E-flat minor

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #86 on: December 02, 2012, 04:20:57 AM
E-flat minor

Mompou - Canción y Danza VI

D major
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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #87 on: December 02, 2012, 06:18:10 PM
Mozart Sonata K. 284

F minor

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #88 on: December 02, 2012, 06:20:00 PM
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #89 on: December 02, 2012, 07:27:13 PM
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

That was unexpected. Where's the key signature for the next person?

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #90 on: December 02, 2012, 09:18:37 PM
That was unexpected. Where's the key signature for the next person?

Sorry, I just saw F minor and couldn't help myself.

B flat major

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #91 on: December 02, 2012, 10:17:42 PM
B flat major

Rachmaninoff Prelude Op. 23 No. 2

C minor

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #92 on: December 03, 2012, 05:53:32 PM
Philip Glass - Metamorphosis 4

G sharp minor

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #93 on: December 03, 2012, 07:46:31 PM
Sergei Taneyev - Prelude and Fugue in G Sharp Minor

Mixolydian (any)

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #94 on: December 04, 2012, 01:46:27 AM

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #95 on: December 04, 2012, 02:23:47 AM
God knows

Oh come on, your not even trying.  :P

Star Trek Theme anyone? The original one.

So... F# major....
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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #96 on: December 04, 2012, 02:28:39 AM
Chopin Barcarolle in F-sharp

C-sharp major

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #97 on: December 04, 2012, 03:03:52 AM
Chopin Barcarolle in F-sharp

C-sharp major

Scriabin etude Op. 8 No. 1

Something that uses the whole tone scale a lot.
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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #98 on: December 04, 2012, 03:12:26 AM
Scriabin etude Op. 8 No. 1

Something that uses the whole tone scale a lot.

Debussy Prelude Livre I No. 2, Voiles

Anything that's mostly in Lydian mode (I have a specific piece in mind; bonus points if you guess it)

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Re: The naming the piece in a certain key game!
Reply #99 on: December 04, 2012, 03:34:39 AM
Anything that's mostly in Lydian mode (I have a specific piece in mind; bonus points if you guess it)

CV Alkan Allegro Barbaro Op35 No5 (F Lydian)

(If that doesn't get the bonus points, you had the wrong piece in mind to start with)

Since we are a la mode, Phrygian

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