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#1 ·
I'm just curious/bored. What is everyone's favorite (or least favorite) key to play in and listen to?
My favorite to play is probably G Major or C Major cause theyre easy hehe. but I don't like listening to pieces in C Major. Most seem dull. I really love listening to pieces in Db Major. It just sounds a lot richer. BUT I hate to play in Db Major. weird...
 
#3 ·
LiLi said:
I'm just curious/bored. What is everyone's favorite (or least favorite) key to play in and listen to?
My favorite to play is probably G Major or C Major cause theyre easy hehe. but I don't like listening to pieces in C Major. Most seem dull. I really love listening to pieces in Db Major. It just sounds a lot richer. BUT I hate to play in Db Major. weird...
Do you have absolute pitch? My favorite key is either D or Eb, to me those are the most noble keys (yes I've got perfect pitch).
 
#5 ·
Ab major and G minor.
Ab is easy to play.
G minor is both dark and versatile.
eg.
Mozart's 25th symphony compared to Tchaikovsky's June from The Seasons.
Mozart's 25th is dark, June is lyrical.

Nice.
 
#18 ·
Six flats is very easy? I hate to hear what you consider hard.

I think it depends on the instrument. I like playing flat keys on the piano, sharp keys on the clarinet, mostly because the middle b-flat on a clarinet is a tricky note to play well and in tune. That's playing pitch, not concert pitch.
 
#12 ·
This seems like a ridiculous question to me. I've heard music in every key that I've liked and disliked. C Major, for instance, is the key in which I've heard alot of ****, but Sibelius' 7th is in C Major, and it is a wonderful piece of music.

As for favourite key for playing in, I generally dislike keys with more than 5 flats or sharps in the key signature.
 
#14 ·
Hmmm. new here. Ive never really paid much to key signatures, im guess im like Prokofiev (one of my favorites) whom wrote many pieces in C major due to his accidentals etc.
To say C major is "childish" is in fact childish in itself, Prokofiev pieces are definitely NOT childish ... but may favorite key would have to be d minor, "Baroque power" lol
 
#19 ·
Hmmm.. western classical keys are limited. I would want to explore other forms of scale systems like those of India. FYI: Note that Debussy didn't like to have keys 'coz of its limited range and function. This of course was inspired by the Paris Expo of the 1890s where Debussy experienced the music of Indonesia's gamelan.
 
#21 ·
I just finished a symposium on World Music. I enjoyed the Indonesia gendhings, but the ragas of India just messes with my head in the way they bend their pitches. Plus they're so numerous it's impossible to know them all. But they are really talented musicians, and I'm glad I got the exposure. Good music.
 
#20 ·
I have perfect pitch, but I have this weird thing going on that I see key signatures in colors more so than sharps or flats. I know kind of crazy. But I like Eb because I see it as blue and its my favorite color. But there's something about Gb major that just does it for me.
 
#23 ·
d minor. On the piano, it sets up an overtone series that if you're not used to it, can make you want to do VERY DARK things after you've played it, LOL!

A very rich key. Second would be b minor, and either G-flat or F-Sharp Major. Those keys are just a TON of fun to play.

Tom
 
#25 ·
In Equal Temperament, the character (the relationship between the tones) of the keys is the same. So in this case what you like or dislike is just the total position in the frequency spectrum.

My favorite key is Enter.
 
#27 ·
In Equal Temperament, the character (the relationship between the tones) of the keys is the same. So in this case what you like or dislike is just the total position in the frequency spectrum.

My favorite key is Enter.
This is true - to a certain point. Theoretically, all keys should sound the same on a keyboard instrument tuned in equal temperament. However, in the real world, equal temperament is a goal seldom truly achieved by even good tuners. Inharmonicity, especially in small pianos, sometimes make equal temperament impossible to achieve. In addition, we all have certain, sometimes subconscious, preferences that often creep into and affect the equal temperament tuning. We tend to like our fifths purer than they should be and, in making them so, it's easy for a tuner to be pleased with his/her temperament octave - even if it isn't truly equal. The smaller the piano, the less likely the equal temperament will actual be equal. As a result, some keys can sound differently from other keys - at least to a listener with good ears. Finally, it takes a good quality instrument to hold a fine tuning for any length of time. The "perfectionist" tuner who spends two hours trying to fine tune his equal temperament on a spinet piano is, unfortunately, wasting his time.
 
#28 ·
I'm a B minor guy. In fact, as I write, I'm about to listen to Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor.

I don't know why but to me B major sounds sadder than B minor. Maybe because it's usually followed either by Eb minor or G# minor or something.

And because a few people have mentioned it, yes I have perfect pitch and yes I love it! :D
 
#30 ·
Hmm, I liked C sharp minor and B flat minor.

Both of the keys can connect to each other, Like in Chopin's Scherzo Op. 39 or in Debussy's Claire de Lune.
Yep! Cuz they're related to D flat major, the most romantic key there is.
 
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