![]() ![]() I have since learned to use the correct name, but it still feels arbitrary sometimes, especially outside of diatonicism. I pretty much always called it E-flat, regardless of context. Guitars don’t have black and white keys, so when I was a feral self-taught musician, I just thought of that note as the eleventh fret on the E string, the sixth fret on the A string, the first fret on the D string, etc. You could also think of it as a lowered E, in which case it’s called E-flat. You could think of it as a raised D, in which case it’s called D-sharp. This confusion applies to all of the black keys, but in this post, I’ll be talking about the one between D and E. Catalog M1135.Why do the black keys on the piano each have two different names? If the posts on r/musictheory are any indication, this is a persistent point of confusion, especially when music theory teachers get all persnickety about using the correct name. IMSLP does not assume any sort of legal responsibility or liability for the consequences of downloading files that are not in the public domain in your country.īoca Raton: Masters Music Publications, n.d.(after 1987). Please obey the copyright laws of your country. You may need to check the publication date and details of the work's first publication in order to determine the work's copyright status, especially for the United States. In the United States, copyright can only apply to new creative work, and the re-engraving of a public domain piece (not including new additions of creative material) should not qualify for a new copyright, despite copyright claims (which properly would only apply to new material). In most European Union countries, these editions (except new original material) are generally protected for no more than 25 years from publication (30 years in Poland). In Canada, new editions/re-engravings of public domain works (when not including new original material) should be in the public domain due to failing to meet the threshold of originality. Any commentary or critical apparatus, if protected by copyright, should not be included in the scan(s) available here. ![]() This is an urtext/critical/scholarly/scientific edition (or a simple re-engraving). ![]()
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