XPost: rec.music.makers.bowed-strings   
   From: jdteske@comcast.net   
      
   On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:04:32 -0800, "Karl Perry"   
    wrote:   
      
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   >"Mike Fontenot"  wrote in message   
   >news:45DE0A04.6D178FDB@comcast.net...   
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   >> A lot of bluegrass fiddle is played in the key of B,   
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   >As in B, C#, D#, E, F#, G#, A#, B?   
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   >Really?  Five sharps?  Or are you talking about B-, which is two flats: B-,   
   >C, D, E-, F, G, A, B-  ?   
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   >One sees B- quite often in classical music, but hardly ever B.   
      
   Well not ubiquitous, but, Brahms First Trio is in B. and a lot of   
   sections of works titled with some other key will modulate into B   
   major. True, B minor (two sharps) or B flat major (two flats) are   
   indeed far more frequent.   
      
   If you play in any significant symphony orchestra which takes on the   
   the entire repertory you will run into 5 and 6 sharps or flats and   
   occasional section might even have 7 (which are the enharmonic of   
   other simpler keys...done more for the sake of musical "grammar.")   
      
   Jon Teske   
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   >Karl   
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