question: why do you have both F# and Gb up there, for example? Smiley
Brahms concerti?
Despite all the Bb lobbying, I'm sticking with Eb!
The 136-bar prelude begins with the eight contrabasses sounding a p E-flat, achieved by half the contrabasses tuning their lowest string a semitone lower, the four other contrabasses doubling the E-flat an octave higher. At bar 5 these are joined by the bassoons sounding a p B-flat, and at bar 17 the first of the eight horns, also playing p (the rest of the eight horns, in staggered successive entrances, repeating the first of the eight, and thereafter all eight continuing immer p for the remainder of the prelude), adds the E-flat-major-triad-establishing G-natural as it sounds the rising E-flat major arpeggio that is Das Rheingold's and the Ring's first leitmotif.
Hmm so I'm the only one to go for g minor? Hmm somehow that key makes me feel... nostalgic.. and sad too. But I like it anyway =)
Definitely c# minor. I like almost everything written in this key, with the possible exception of the bloody FI.Ian
YES!! I agree! Look at all the great music that came out of Eb major -Liszt concerto No.1, Grand Galop Chromatique, Beethoven's emperor concerto..
Consider how present it is in the voting, I'm surprised so few posts mention d minor.The darkest key. Come on, does nobody else enjoy it?
D Flat Major and C Sharp Minor.I think I may be the only person here who does not associate a particular emotion or character with each key signature...
Hahha no, same here.I think it's bull imo (for the piano, possibly not for ensemble): there are two reasons you use different keys: pitch and technicality.I can't beleive C# is somehow "darker" or "moodier" than C or whatever. They'r ejust a half tone apart, and the piano is an equally-tempered insturment, hence the distances between the pitches are exactly the same. Same frequency ratio, why different moods and feeling?I think it's just about what pieces we are used to hearing in specific keys.