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Musical Key
- A Musical Key is the result of an agreement among the musicians playing a piece of music to use a specific collection of tones (a scale).
- The difference between a scale and a key is that a scale requires a specific ascending and descending order within the tones. A key places no requirements on how or when the tones of a scale are used.
- A scale is about order (Do Re Me Fa….).
- A key is about population (which tones) and limits (only the tones say, on the scale of "C"). Thus, a scale defines a musical key.
The concept of a musical key is important because often a work will be referred to by its key. For example, Beethoven’s 5th Symphony is sometimes called his symphony in C minor.
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