#1
Posted: 1/6/06 at 4:57pm
what does it mean when someone says something like there going to sing a song i A flat? what are the other types of ways to sing song?
singing in different keys
#2
Posted: 1/6/06 at 5:07pm
I'm not a music major, or an expert on singing, but essentially playing a song in, say, an A-flat, means that the middle C (and all the notes) have been transposed (or moved down) to A-flat. When you sing it in any key, you're taking the notes and transposing them, up or down. It is how you make a harmony.
Updated On: 1/6/06 at 05:07 PM
#3
Posted: 1/6/06 at 6:08pm
ummm that's sort of a rough explanation. Key signature is not how you make harmony, but you're sort of right in terms of explaning it as if it were a transposition.
Basically, key signatures are what appear at the beginning of a piece which tell the musician singing or playing that specific notes will be moved a half step sharp or flat (trying playing a white key on a piano surrounded by two black keys. Playing the black key to the right of that white key moves that note a half step sharp, the black key to the left moves it a half step flat). The reason that key signatures are used today in terms of singing is to move the notes in the song such that it lies in a specific range. Historically, however, many composers attributed different key signatures to being able to evoke different emotions. A key signature is not how you make harmony, that is created using different intervals to create different chords.
Basically, key signatures are what appear at the beginning of a piece which tell the musician singing or playing that specific notes will be moved a half step sharp or flat (trying playing a white key on a piano surrounded by two black keys. Playing the black key to the right of that white key moves that note a half step sharp, the black key to the left moves it a half step flat). The reason that key signatures are used today in terms of singing is to move the notes in the song such that it lies in a specific range. Historically, however, many composers attributed different key signatures to being able to evoke different emotions. A key signature is not how you make harmony, that is created using different intervals to create different chords.
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