Yes, it’s true. I like E flat. B flat seems cool in a similar way but the fact it’s right below C makes it less cool.
G flat is a punk and F# does almost everything right. If G# is Fyodor, A flat is Alexei.
1 part D flat and 1 part C sharp make a fine Kafka.
And D# and A# often confuse me.
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I am fond of E flat. There was one particular spot in the dining room where I used to live, where if you sang an E flat various things would resonate; a little pocket in an otherwise acoustically uninteresting room. It was the first time I realized that the cartoon image of a glass cracking when a soprano sang could actually be true, that sound wasn’t just its own thing that didn’t really affect the rest of the world around it. Also, E flat makes me want to sing chorales.
G flat is one I never expect to like as much as I do when it’s there — the person I haven’t talked to in forever, whose visit I am apprehensive about, who comes for an afternoon and we spend a wonderful time together. F# is a little off-putting.
But I think in D minor and in fact am a very D minor sort of person: straightforward, not too complicated, given to both romance and intellectualism, and more than a little sad.
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Yay, D minor. The last three pieces I’ve been learning for the guitar (all Baroque) have been in Dm. It’s pretty much the perfect key for guitar.
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All these talks about D minor is making me want to hear some good Dm music…I wonder which ones I have.
D minor is indeed very cool.
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> All these talks about D minor is making me want to hear some good Dm music…I wonder which ones I have.
This is, I assert, the best piece for piano in Dm:
http://chris.printf.net/Busoni_Chaconne.mp3
You have to listen with the lights off, though. It’s a rule. 🙂
– Chris.
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I shall do that tonight. I listened to rachmaninoff piano concerto #3 in Dminor on the train last night. So good.
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