D minor

[MrGongGong]

The "saddest of keys?"

[ahinton]

The "saddest of keys?"

Oh, no! - let's not have a thread on all 24!

Bruckner 3 & 9, Schönberg Verklärte Nacht and first quartet, Mendelssohn first piano trio, Bach cello suite...

[Roehre]

Beethoven 9

[Pabmusic]

I've never thought of D minor as especially 'sad'. Solemn perhaps. Serious.

Dvorak: Symphony 7
Sibelius: ViolinConcerto
RVW: Violin Concerto
RVW: Symphony 8
Mussorgsky: Night on a Bare Mountain
Schumann: Symphony 4
Schubert: "Death & the Maiden" Quartet
Brahms: PC No. 1

[Roehre]

I've never thought of D minor as especially 'sad'. Solemn perhaps. Serious.
.....

Or cheerful: Hindemith's Lustige Sinfonietta opus 4 e.g.

[MrGongGong]

Oh, no! - let's not have a thread on all 24!
.

As a follower of Partch may I humbly suggest that there are many more than a miserly 24

"simple lines": N Tufnel

Maybe I should fess up as the folks who have posted obviously didn't get the reference in my quote?

[Stanfordian]

Hiya AHinton,

Surely one thread will suffice as a topic for keys. But I can see there are two already.

[Dave2002]

Hiya AHinton,

Surely one thread will suffice as a topic for keys. But I can see there are two already.

Perhaps, though without a suitable filter it could get somewhat difficult to handle, and not so useful. This website is essentially static, from the end user's point of view, so really not a good idea.

[MrGongGong]

But I can see there are two already.

I think it can go all the way up to 11

[ahinton]

As a follower of Partch may I humbly suggest that there are many more than a miserly 24

H certainly tried one-upmanship on 42, did he not? But what are the additional keys?

[Beef Oven!]

As a follower of Partch........

I don't think he would have approved of followers...............

[pastoralguy]

I think it can go all the way up to 11

That's nit pickin' - ain't it?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think it can go all the way up to 11

But only using Dobly.

[ahinton]

Fauré Piano Trio
Shostakovich 5
Shostakovich 12 (well, that's sad in a different way, I suggest! - one of his few really sub-standard works)

Schönberg - or probably more accurately, Schoenberg (as I think that it was quite late in his life) - is suuposed to have declared that there was still plenty of fine music to be written in C major (although all my efforts to trace the precise source of this statement came to nought beyond the likelihood that he never actually wrote this but said it in some talk or other); so what did he do about it? - write his second chamber symphony, in E flat minor! - but perhaps realising that he'd omitted to put his pen where his mouth was, he threw a C major chord into the final bar of his piano concerto!

Anyway, back to D minor...

[ahinton]

But only using Dobly.

...the Paso variety of which no doubt fans of SCD will drool over Katie doing ere long...