What's your favourite circle of fifths?

**AscribeUntoTheLad** · 06-01-12, 17:24

I was listening to Ein Deutsches Requiem today and remembered how much I enjoy that great circle of fifths in the sixth movement.

Does anyone else have any similar moments which they enjoy?

**mercia** · 06-01-12, 18:20

if non-choral is allowed, the numerous examples in Mozart piano concertos are very enjoyable (IMO)

EDIT - I can't give chapter and verse because I don't have any scores in front of me. Would we all agree that CoF are usually instantly recognisable?

**pole_2_pole** · 06-01-12, 23:51

Mozart's Pachelbel's Canon

**Caliban** · 07-01-12, 02:52

Bars 23 - 25 in the slow movement of Brahms's First Piano Concerto...

**mercia** · 07-01-12, 06:17

it's a long time since I did 'O' level music. is the circle of fifths basically a device for getting you from one key to another distant key?

**antongould** · 07-01-12, 07:47

but surely your Masters in Music was more recent.....................................

**ferneyhoughgeliebte** · 07-01-12, 12:06

Originally Posted by mercia

it's a long time since I did 'O' level music. is the circle of fifths basically a device for getting you from one key to another distant key?

Not necessarily, mercs: RVW uses it to affirm the Tonality of the Second Group of his Fifth Symphony (bars 69-76; and in the Recap starting five bars before fig13). Up until this point, the Tonality has been shaded with various Modal "flavours" (Mixolydian, Aeolian, Dorian): here the composer celebrates the "unsullied" Diatonic major key by rejuvenating what had become a cliché.

**amateur51** · 07-01-12, 12:20

Originally Posted by Caliban

Bars 23 - 25 in the slow movement of Brahms's First Piano Concerto...

Blimey, Calibs - can you whistle it for me, please?

**Caliban** · 07-01-12, 13:24

Originally Posted by amateur51

Blimey, Calibs - can you whistle it for me, please?

Yes!

If you stick it on, it's about halfway through the second piano entry in the slow movement.

(If you recall, the movement starts with a section just for orchestra, for 13 gorgeous adagio 6/4 bars... then a section of piano solo for 5 bars... then 2 bars of orchestra alone... then then the piano again joined after a bar by two descending notes from the horns in octaves: and then my circle of fifths bit with just cellos and basses for accompaniment

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**EdgeleyRob** · 07-01-12, 13:26

What's a circle of fifths ?

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