quoted 5 lines Also, concerning the enharmonic spelling statement...no, there is a big>Also, concerning the enharmonic spelling statement...no, there is a big
>difference between C# and Db. C# major has six sharps and Db major has
>five flats. You must not play much written music on an instrument, because
>if you ask any player if there is a difference between those two keys, the
>>answer will be yes. I'm not even going to get into the equal tempermenttuning system as a compromise allowing for chromaticism.
but the difference is conceptual, a matter of assigning the same sounds different names. Certainly on equal temperment instruments there's no difference between the sound of the two scales.
The reason why you'd choose to write something in "C#" instead of "Dd" often has to do with making clear the harmonic structure of the music. (Like if the music started in F# and modulated to the dominant, you'd make it more apparent by calling it C#.)
am I wrong? If you were playing with a string ensemble, would your tuning really be different if a piece were notated in C# rather than Dd?
just got the Kompakt compilation "Total 2". Has some nice things on it. actually has a bunch of vocals on the album, somewhat beaten into submission with sampling, but not what I would have expected from Kompact. I'm oddly attracted to the cheeseball technopop-ish "Amanda" by M. Mayer (whoever that is).
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