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If some one said what's the texture of say a piano sonata (could be 1, 2, 7 etc) by Beethoven what are we looking out, basically what are we going to tell them? I've been reading about texture though am still kind of confused in how to describe a composition in terms of texture, though for this ques...

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This may seem a daft question; If a song is in 2/2 time, do we still refer to a 1/4 note as a 1/4 note, even though the value of it has changed. Do 8th notes become 16th notes? If I'm referring to a bar of - 1e+a 2e+a - in 4/4 this would be 16th notes, though in 2/2? I'm so used to reading things in...

The tendency for the transposing brass parts to orchestral works to not use a key signature is a relic of the days when they had no valves, meaning that in order to play in different keys you actually had to change the crook of the instrument. Because there were no accidentals available to them and...

Thanks for the replies! For Mozart of course it's not a relic -- the trumpet COULDN'T play outside the fundamentals. So being in C, it'll relate to C minor just fine (all C means is that it's notated at concert pitch, so a C will sound C....just fine when the only notes it can play are C and G outsi...

Hi all, I've got the score for Mozart's Piano Concerto in C Minor, Number 24. I really need some clarification on something to do with the key signature for the Corni in Es/Horn in Eb and the Trombe in C/Trumpet in C. The concerto is in the key of C MInor which has three flats, the clarinet has one ...