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Aural training modulations3/24/2024 After say 10 seconds, my partner who plays piano + clarinet (probably 2 grades higher than me) says this is probably in this major/minor etc. So what about D minor? The key of BWV 565, Don Giovanni, K466, Beethoven's Choral Symphony, Chopin's Op.28/24? Angst and desperation - or sheer melodious beauty?įor example, let's pick a random piece and listen at a non-tonic position in that piece. Yet he probably only ever heard it in F# minor, because period pitch was about a semitone lower than today. We know G minor was a 'special' key for Mozart ( Sturm und Drang), at least in his symphonies - Little G minor and Great G minor. Is it "a work of passion, violence, and grief" (as most of us, like Charles Rosen, would deem it today) or merely possessing "Grecian lightness and grace" (according to Schumann).or even - as the great musicologist Donald Francis Tovey saw in it - the character of opera buffa? Both give the same 'feeling' - and what you feel depends on you. I can feel the vibration when my voice aligns with the bass note.Īre there pieces to listen to develop this "feeling"?I'm not sure what it is you're trying to achieve.ĭifferent keys mean different things to different composers, and if you don't have perfect pitch, hearing (say) Mozart's K550 (I) in F# minor sounds no different to hearing it in G minor. I don't know how to sing.I can make a sound and check if it's the right frequency on a voice app though. Starting at a max of two and increasing it as I finish all the listed pieces.Īs I transcribe, I think in terms of movable solfege. I've been doing interval training by trying to transcribe the notes at. My theory is at grade 9 last time I tested. I'm currently in RCM grade 4 but my ears are barely at grade 1. Had zero music background before learning piano at age 29. I've been taking a weekly lesson for 14 months (add an additional 2 years if counting self learning). Some of them don't sound like the key signature or even the key color description. I saw a characterization of the keys in https:/ / / ubbthreads.php/ topics/ 2752268/ satie-gymnopedie.htmlĪre there pieces to listen to develop this "feeling"? I downloaded the ones I can find on YouTube from https:/ / en.m./ wiki/ Music_written_in_all_major_and/ or_minor_keys
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