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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
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Subject: Composers write in Dflat or Fsharp to show off?
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Date: Sun, 6-May-84 19:17:57 EDT
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I don't know, but I have noticed a peculiar thing with Wolf's songs,
especially "Italienisches liederbuch": These are mostly love songs of
one kind or another. The more light-hearted ones tend to be in F or Bflat.
Eflat and Aflat are for more serious and tender ones. As the texts get
progressively desperate/horny, we go to Dflat or Gflat. When we come
out on the other side to E, for instance, we find the religious feelings
beginning to come up. Counterexamples are easy to find, but a general
trend of this kind seems to be there. 

			just another classical creep,
                                         Jeff Winslow