Talk:A minor

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There seems to be some disagreement as to whether A minor contains the note G or G-sharp. As we all know, the natural minor has a G-natural, the harmonic minor has a G-sharp, and the melodic minor has both, depending whether it's ascending or descending. Comments? -GTBacchus(talk) 20:14, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Keyboard Fingering

It would be a good idea to add the standard keyboard fingering for a two-octave A minor scale.

[edit] ALL Minor Key Articles

I'm putting this comment in the A minor article quite arbitrarily but here goes.

Any music theory teacher will tell you that you would never ask for the notes of an A minor scale on a test or anywhere else. You have to be more specific - do you want A natural minor, harmonic minor, or what? These key signature pages tend to be a mess. They need pictures of the scales, sound clips of the scales being played, and fingering charts for the scales for as many instruments as possible. Now I can do fingerings for piano and most of the brass instruments, but others will have to come along and help for the rest.

Any comments on this? Objections? Other ideas for what to add to scale pages? -Aerlinndan 12:38, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

You say these pages are a mess but then instead you list things they lack rather than things that need to be corrected. Wrong things must be corrected right away, while things that need to be added can wait.
I guess it would be nice to have fingerings for piano. But for winds we run into problems: do you want to put fingerings for clarinet in B-flat, or clarinet in A, or both? For horns I guess the choice is between horn in F and horn in B-flat, while for trumpets you probably only need to worry about the B-flat. And what about trombones? I hear that in England their tenor trombones are based on the G harmonic series. Anton Mravcek 23:24, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No More Erasing

This list looks okay for now. You may add songs, but don't delete appropriate ones!


[edit] Well-known music in this key

I plan on deleting any unsourced entries from this in a few weeks. (Listening to a piece and trying to figure out the key is not a source, and is also WP:OR.) Torc2 (talk) 08:27, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Origin of the musical alphabet

Was there a time in which A minor was the usual key to play music in, thereby making A-B-C-D-E-F-G-A the obvious way to name the notes? DanBishop (talk) 07:34, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

That's a very good question. According to the booklet for the Eichhorn recording of Bruckner's Ninth, C major replaced D minor as the "primo tonus" of music. As far as I know, A minor has never been the "primo tonus." Del arte (talk) 20:54, 4 May 2008 (UTC)