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The shifting of a melody, a harmonic progression or an entire musical piece to another key, while maintaining the same tone structure, i.e. the same succession of whole tones and semitones and remaining melodic intervals.

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When does a song sound bad in its parallel major / minor key?

Melodies that work well in both modes tend to emphasize musical features common to the modes, such as stepwise motion, the stability of scale degrees 1, 3, and 5, chord progressions using primary tria …
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What's the point of keys other than C and Am?

I would like to suggest that there are three sources of this so-called "key symbolism": The actual differences in pitch, e.g. take the rich D-flat major triad that ends a Romantic piano piece such a …
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Bruno Mars pitched down a major third, is this now in a range that most men could sing?

I made an arrangement of Mars' "When I Was Your Man" that an amateur men's choir sang, mostly in unison, with a bit of 2-part harmony. I took it down from C to E♭ (9 semitones). I expect the same woul …
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