What's your favourite circle of fifths?

[Caliban]

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 )

[EdgeleyRob]

What's a circle of fifths ?

[Caliban]

What's a circle of fifths ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_fifths

Usually, it's makes for a particularly gorgeous and heart-easing moment of modulation...

[EdgeleyRob]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_fifths

Usually, it's makes for a particularly gorgeous and heart-easing moment of modulation...

Many thanks.Music theory is not my strong point clearly.

[french frank]

A bit more help needed here. I know what a fifth is. I know what (diagrammatically) the circle of fifths is. Does this mean that a composer works her (heh, heh) way through that circle, in its natural order, in a particular passage?

[amateur51]

A bit more help needed here. I know what a fifth is. I know what (diagrammatically) the circle of fifths is. Does this mean that a composer works her (heh, heh) way through that circle ...

@ your (heh, heh), ff

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Rarely through the whole cycle, frenchie, and often (as in the Mozart example mentioned earlier) "cheating" to fit in with Tonality (eg the Bass will fall - and it's always [?] a falling progression - G - C - F - B - E - rather than Bb - Eb).

There's usually a gorgeous sequential passage in the melody line(s) above, too.

[french frank]

Thanks fhg. The falling idea is a scrap that I understood. Perfectly

(Apols to AscribeUntoTheLad for taking things back to basics)

[Caliban]

A bit more help needed here. I know what a fifth is. I know what (diagrammatically) the circle of fifths is. Does this mean that a composer works her (heh, heh) way through that circle, in its natural order, in a particular passage?

This is quite helpful, especially if you can play through the illustrations at the pianoforte http://mailer.fsu.edu/~nrogers/Hando...ce_Handout.pdf

[french frank]

This is quite helpful, especially if you can play through the illustrations at the pianoforte http://mailer.fsu.edu/~nrogers/Hando...ce_Handout.pdf

Ha! downstairs to get this up on my laptop and sit at the, erm, Clavinova . Thank you.