At 12:06 AM -0500 2/13/07, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Feb 12, 2007, at 10:53 PM, Mark D Lew wrote:
In this particular case I happen to have another problem which I
didn't even bring up: what happens if the singer wants it in a key
that the piano part resists? It turns out that my singer's favored
key is Db major,
I realize this wasn't the point of Mark's post, but it caught my eye.
In preparing to do an Andrew Lloyd Webber medley about 15 years ago,
I listened to all the shows, and was surprised to discover that all
the big songs were, in fact, in the key of Db!
How can a piano part "resist" a key? I can see a pianist without
chops getting upset, but those guys like Chopin and Debussy seemed to
like keys with lots of black keys! I've been told (not a pianist
myself) that C major is the most awkward key for a pianist, given
that our fingers are all different lengths.
John
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