Good. Because I wouldn’t want to play with anyone who could not admit when they were wrong.
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Bass theory question
- Thread starter Greenman72
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If a song notated as D minor by the key signature was full of F#’s, C#’s and B naturals, it would not be the key of D Minor. It would more likely be the key of D or A. Again - fella should quit his job, or quit drinking in the job.
Ditto, but how am I wrong?
Anyway, sounds like we’d both be pretty happy with my decision.
Wrong *key signature*. Why have two different terms if they are the same thing? Why would anyone do that?
There are keys, and key signatures, and while they are related, they are not the same thing! You know this is true, why argue so obstinately that it is not?
Because you are arguing that the key signature is the same as a key, or that it defines the key.
If you are not arguing that, then W T F is going on here? Because that’s my entire point.
Five pages of this has made me remember why I love TB. Never change, my darling.
If the C#s and B naturals are appearing only in sections, and the rest of the song utilizes the key signature of D minor, then it’s using the right key signature and the accidentals are being used appropriately. It’s in the key of D Minor. Not sure why this is such a struggle. Key signatures exist to more easily and clearly communicate. They’re used to indicate the key.
Written words are used to more easily and clearly communicate ideas that can also be spoken. But if you write using homonyms and synonyms to notate spoken words that don’t use those homonyms and synonyms, or insert commas and ellipses where they’re not used in the spoken word, I hope you can agree that makes things more confused and less easily understood.
Let’s go eat grandma!
The key signature notates the key. I think I’ve been consistently saying that.
I said it is “notated in the wrong key”. Via the key signature, the mechanism of key notation. Why are you correcting this? Please just slow down and read the words.
Except it does not uniquely notate the key. It just doesn’t.
If you see a key signature with no sharps or flats, is song in C major or A minor? You cannot know.
And those are two different keys.
I didn't mention sections, that was @HolmeBass.
Anyway, you wanted to see a score - this is page 1 of the Prelude to J.S. Bach Cello Suite II, in D Minor, BWV 1008:
It adequately informs the person playing the score that any E represented is an E natural unless it is modified by an accidental.
Ok. What was your point?
It’s D minor. The key signature notates that. Some bars use a major 6th and a major 7th as passing tones. Accidentals are used appropriately. Not quite like how you characterized it, is it? Full of C#’s and B naturals? Some, sure, but full of them?
The key signature notates the key.
