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Edwird -> RE: Say it! Who are you for? Why? (6/18/2016 10:43:42 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
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ORIGINAL: Edwird
So you are saying that the typical British citizen is more capable than the typical American citizen of singing an anthem (or whatever song) spanning the range of an octave and a fifth?
.....it's easier than that...one octave total. Just found one in C that went from G to G so.....? American anthem that is.
Well yes. In the key of C, G is the fifth tone of the scale. The G above that would make it an octave and a fifth.
It would take some quite un-melodic change of the original melody to cram The Star Spangled Banner into whatever key to have the fifth tone of the scale as the lowest and highest notes, which is the only way to limit the thing to an octave. The tonic, not the fifth tone, is the lowest note in the 'tune'. The standard version, bolding the C and Italicising the (octave higher) c of the words; "Oh-oh say can you see ..." already an octave, almost right away, "say" (C, in this case) being the lowest note in the whole affair, not G.
What happens in the middle part? "And the roc-ket's red glare!"; that's the 3-4-5 of the scale, e-f-g, -in the next octave-. Indeed, the song goes from a lower G to a higher one, but the lower one is already a fifth above the lowest note in the music.
Any case, interested in that reference if you have it.
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