Favourite key

[dyn]

inspired by the E minor symphonies thread, using only keys that are reasonably common (sorry, G-double-sharp minor fans, you're out of luck today)

If you have synaesthesia, please explain further. >.>

[mc ukrneal]

It would never even occur to me to have a preference. I love them all. It's the music, not the key, that is important to me. It is a curious question.

[Beorn]

monkey

[Karl Henning]

monkey

banana

[Beorn]

banana

exactly

[Sergeant Rock]

No contest: D minor. So many of my favorite symphonies and concertos in that key.

Bach PC1
Brahms PC1
Brian Gothic
Bruckner 0, 3 and 9
Dvorak 4 and 7
Haydn 26, 34, 80
Ives 1
Mahler 1 and 3
Mozart Requiem and PC20
Prokofiev 2
Rachmaninoff 1 and PC3
Schumann 4
Shostakovich 5
Sibelius 6 and VC
Vaughan Williams 8


Sarge

[kyjo]

D-flat major. Don't ask me why! I really wish more pieces were written in this key. I also love its dark relative minor, B-flat minor.

[DavidW]

Sarge do you remember the D Minor poster we used to have around here?  Now that's dedication to the key!  Kudos for remembering that awesome Bach concerto.

[Brahmsian]

B minor

[Sergeant Rock]

Sarge do you remember the D Minor poster we used to have around here?  Now that's dedication to the key!  Kudos for remembering that awesome Bach concerto.

Oh yes, I remember Mr. D Minor. He turned insular, confined himself to the apocalypse thread, waiting, apparently, for the end of the world    I wonder what became of him? He's missed.

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

I don't have a favorite, they are my children. But this is the distribution of my repertoire:

C major:    137
C minor:    66
C# major: 3
C# minor: 25
Db major: 18
D major:    101
D minor:    81
D# minor: 1
Eb major:83
Eb minor:   7
E major: 45
E minor:48
F major:74
F minor:44
F# major:6
F# minor:14
Gb major:7
G major: 77
G minor:78
G# minor:7
Ab major:35
Ab minor:   3   
A major:71
A minor:67
Bb major:66
Bb minor:   11
B major:14
B minor:51

Interesting that g# and a^b minor together outnumber d# and e^b minor.

(Well, I found it mildly interesting, anyway . . . .)

[Karl Henning]

What's it all about, Annie? . . .

[PaulR]

G Minor, though D and C minor are close behind.

[Sergeant Rock]

D-flat major. Don't ask me why! I really wish more pieces were written in this key.

Yeah, pretty rare key. Of the thousands of works in my record collection only twelve eight are in that key (the most important, to me: Shosty 9, Beethoven Les Adieux[/i], Berwald 4, Prokofiev PC1, Brahms Horn Trio).

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

(the most important, to me: Shosty 9, Beethoven Les Adieux, Berwald 4, Prokofiev PC1, Brahms Horn Trio).

Aren't the Shostakovich, Beethoven and Brahms in E^b? . . .

[Opus106]

Bach PC1

Sarge

Ahem, HC.

[Sergeant Rock]

Ahem, HC.

Not the one I like 

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Aren't the Shostakovich, Beethoven and Brahms in E^b? . . .

They are! The Berwald too is in E flat. I have them typed in wrong on my CD list. I wonder how that happened?  ...oh, of course...I'm a senior 

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Just a pop song allusion, resonating with your observation that some data want more context. That is all.

[kyjo]

Yeah, pretty rare key. Of the thousands of works in my record collection only twelve eight are in that key (the most important, to me: Shosty 9, Beethoven Les Adieux[/i], Berwald 4, Prokofiev PC1, Brahms Horn Trio).

Sarge

Some D-flat major works I know: Khachaturian's PC and Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia, Miaskovsky's Symphony no. 25 and Rangstrom's Symphony no. 3. Tchaikovsky wrote two of his most beautiful melodies in this key: the opening of PC 1 and the "love theme" from Romeo and Juliet. Also the famous 18th variation from Rach's Paganini Variations. There's something really passionate and romantic about this key.