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Topic: Question about reading sheet music
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posted May 19, 2003 06:34 PM
  
Ok here my question: I have been studying the sheet music lessons and decided to try to read one by myself. I found "In the hall of the mountain king" by Grieg http://www.angelfire.com/co/cubo/images/grieg_hotmk.gif The key signature of "In the hall of the mountain king" says it has 2 # that means a D major scale. The first note on the second measure is E but it
has a # sign before it which makes it an E#. Since there is no E# it should
be F. Why name it like that and place the note on the E space instead that
on the F line?IP: Logged |
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posted May 19, 2003 07:46 PM
Remember in the "Key of D," you have 2 accidentals. They are 'C# & F#'. So they cannot put this Note in the 'F' column--simply because it would be read as an 'F#'. They could however, have used the "Natural Sign" in the 'F' column, but for what ever reason, I guess he chose not to do this. As a guess the 'F' Natural could be read as a Minor 3rd, and the writer did not want the reader thinking along these lines. This piece was written more for the piano however. A recomendation might be to look for something that relates more to the guitar. [This message has been edited by Dux (edited May 19, 2003).] IP: Logged |
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posted May 19, 2003 08:00 PM
I knew it was something like that although I would have never guessed it by myself.Thanks a lot. About your recommnedation, do you have any classical tunes to recommend that were originally written for the guitar? IP: Logged |
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posted May 19, 2003 10:28 PM
its not orginally for piano but definitly part of classical guitar reportoire, J.S Bach "prelude in D", Beethovens Sonata No 14 in Cminor also known as the "Moonlight Sonata"IP: Logged |
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posted May 19, 2003 10:30 PM
also the "malagena" that was written for guitar and its a traditional spanish pieceIP: Logged |
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posted May 21, 2003 06:33 PM
Thanks for the recommendation. I found the sonata and the malaguenai'll try both. i also found some other classical tunes for guitar such as:
J.S.Bach Chorale in F Major W.Mozart Non Piu Andrai J.S.Bach Chorale in B Minor
J.S.Bach Chorale in G Major
Bach Gavote
Mozart Allegro in C major
Which ones do you recommned? IP: Logged |
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