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If the piece is in a certain key like G-flat major, I'll find out what color [Mr. Scriabin] saw for that key and perhaps base my color on that.
Orchestrating an Extrasensory Sound in Living Color Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010
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There is nothing especially complicated about the total blackness in his Funeral March, nor about the delight in his ‘Black Keys’ Study in G-flat major.
The first Romantic 2010
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I wish I could bring back the specifics, I only recall that his row began with a C-major triad, followed by G-flat major.
Alone together Matthew Guerrieri 2006
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In reimagining the terminally familiar waltz in G-flat major, he makes the brisk opening strain a springy folk dance; the tender second strain winds down like a music box and just about breaks your heart.
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As I have marked on the accompanying copy, on pages 3, 5, 7, instead of D-flat, G-flat in the 2nd tenor, the C, F
Letters Liszt, Franz 1893
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Nor must we overlook the so-called hackneyed valses, the tinkling charm of the one in G-flat, the elegiac quality of the one in B minor.
Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890
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Who, except Pachmann, essays the _G-flat major Impromptu_ -- wrongfully catalogued as _Des Dur_ in the Klindworth edition?
Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890
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(Note the transition to G-flat in the ninth measure.)
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"Dreaming," a meditative sustained melody in the key of G-flat, resting upon a triplet motion in the middle part, with harmonies sensitively changing at unexpected places, capable of most beautiful effect; also an excellent study in cantabile.
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No. 5, in G-flat major, is commonly known as the "black-key study," and its object is to accustom the hands to the black keys and to very rapid changes from one part of the keyboard to another.
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