two wrongs dont make a right but three lefts do.
What do you think
I downloaded the tabs for rondo alla turka by mozart of the internet. The song is meant to be played in Amaj but the guy who wrote the tabs uses notes [A, B, C, D, D#, E, F, G, G#]. What key is he in and what scale can this guy possibly bo using? Are all these notes even in one scale? I was going to play this song in about a month in front of my music appreciation class. But I dont want to make a fool out of my self. So if this is a bad interpretation of the song do you think I should play it. If not do you know where I can find better tabs for this song?
# 1
Usually when pulling tabs off the internet I try to find at least 3 or 4 transcriptions of the same song so that I have something to compare them to for discrepencies.
Looks like this guy has it transcribed for the key of Aminor , I would view the D#(b5 blues note) and the G# (leading tone of harmonic minor) as passing tones. Don't know the piece though so can't offer much help. Now if it was Blue Rondo Ala turk by Dave Brubeck that would be another story, Good luck!
[Edited by chris mood on 03-07-2002 at 10:04 AM]
Looks like this guy has it transcribed for the key of Aminor , I would view the D#(b5 blues note) and the G# (leading tone of harmonic minor) as passing tones. Don't know the piece though so can't offer much help. Now if it was Blue Rondo Ala turk by Dave Brubeck that would be another story, Good luck!
[Edited by chris mood on 03-07-2002 at 10:04 AM]
# 2
Surely it's not going to be in A minor and have a flattened fifth if it is by mozart and it was originally a major key? Possibly it is in C major (yes, yes, same key in a way I know, but probably closer to the truth I would think) and has simply been transposed to work for the guitar better, as often happens. The D# could then be seen as a way of temporarily changin to C minor and the G#, I don't know. I don't really know the piece, but classical music often has accidentals.
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# 3
I would suggest that classical composers like Mozart, Bach, etc, did not use modern music theory to compose their songs. They used a system called hexachord.
That's why the notes may not appear to fit into any particular key.
# 4
Im not saying this is the way it went down but it could very well be that Johann Pachelbell is the one that wrote the first composition using the hexachord. I dont realy know much about the hexachord except what has been written in previous post. What I do know is that Johann Pachelbell wrote a composition call -Hexachordrum Apollinis- and he is also the guy that inspired J.S. Bach. Just for further discussion It would be interesting to truly find out if Mozart had actually written any pieces with the method spoken about. Especially concidering he was in the Classical period and Bach was in the Baroque period.
two wrongs dont make a right but three lefts do.
# 5
As an interesting aside, Mozart is known for never having written a wrong note. On all of the manuscript of his that remains, all of it was clearly written quickly, and not once is there even an indication that he might have erased a note. This is in strong contrast to Beethoven, who would erase entire passages at a time. It speaks a little about the amazing skill that Mozart had.
"Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year, it's just not that widely reported".
# 6
You don't think Mozart liked to through in a little bluesy b5 into his compositions every now and then? -lol-
# 7
The Pentatonic scale is just the major scale minus a few notes (2), so you can use Major scale harmonies for a diatonic sound or imply the minor penta. over a major 145 for a rock sound.
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