[Dixielandjazz] Stardust key

billsharp sharp-b at clearwire.net
Mon Oct 2 17:43:01 PDT 2006


Bill Haesler wrote:

[Carmichael brought his own chart to Detroit and met with Redman, who, 
according to Sudhalter,
"filled it out and corrected the voicings," although he left it in
Carmichael's key, D major. " . ]. . . . . . .Well Bill, thanx so very 
much for the extremely thorough information on Stardust.  It was quite 
interesting to see how much time people have spent on the issue, and to 
see that one single song could stir so much controversy.  There now 
arises another question about the composition based upon the sentence 
which I put in brackets.   Was Carmichael's key D major?  I thought it 
was D-flat major, and I have seen it written it in Db or C, but never 
in D.


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