Re: [Harp-L] Just what exactly is 'key'?

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Here's another Wikipedia page:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_%28music%29

Please notice that the definition stresses cadences as defining a key. As
I pointed out earlier there are multiple cadences with a jazz tune and
each cadence usually resolves to a different tonal center. So in jazz
this definition would not assign a key or at least a single key to most
jazz tunes. Yet jazz players often do speak of a single key associated
with a tune.

Cheers1


> Found this question on Ask Metafilter:
> Music: Just what exactly is
> 'key'?<http://ask.metafilter.com/6444/Music-Just-what-exactly-is-key>
>
> One of the answers was so good, Wikipedia references
> it<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_%28music%29#External_links>
> :
> A simple, but accurate, explanation of the function of "keys" in
> music<http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/6444#132028>
>
> --
> Arthur Jennings
> http://www.timeistight.com
>