On Jul 9, 2005, at 7:20 PM, Taris Flashpaw wrote:
Hi all
I've run into a bit of a quandary with the finale to a work I'm
currently trying to finish (which has been ongoing for about five
years). The fourth movement (of five) is a lovely passacaglia and the
bass line (on which the whole movement is based) only ever cadences
when another repetition follows it (it ends with a V7 and starts with
a i chord), so naturally, come the end of the movement, the cadence is
nowhere to be found. My intentions are to have an attacca into the
fifth movement and have the final i chord of the passacaglia kick off
the finale (of course, modulating to the new key).
Here's my problem. The passacaglia is in D minor and the Finale is in
B minor. What key signature should I use for the start of the Finale?
Should I use D minor to easier show the modulations, or should I
notate the whole thing in B minor (the modulation will only take a few
bars, so by bar 10, it will be in B minor). I see it as kind of
pointless to use a key signature for only ten bars and then change
it...
What would you recommend?
On the assumption that in tonal music there is recognisable key and the
musicians know what it is, I would leave any transitory progressions in
the OLD key, only stating the B minor key signature when it shows up
definitively in bar 10. I have no problems with changing key signatures
for (relatively) short passages, if there is a definite modulation.
I seem to be a weirdo about that, though, so take my opinions with a
grain of salt.
Christopher
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