C major is conceptually simple and very familiar, but it forces the hand into a relatively flat position since all the diatonic notes lie on a single plane, so thumb-crossing is a challenge, and one can't easily play with the hands interlocked. But the difficulty should not be overstated: a lot of string repertoire is highly chromatic, so even a piece in a relatively comfortable key such as F major can roam through a region based on D-flat. The key of D-flat forces string players to refer to potentially less-familiar fingerings and hand positions. For string players (violin family), their instruments have open strings of G/D/A plus either C or E, so the most familiar fingering patterns are the ones based on scales that include most or all of these open-string notes. The "difficult" key signatures vary by instrument. I'm curious: Why is having many sharps or flats difficult, is it technically difficult? Would difficulties arise also in Clarinet playing for instance? Then I read about 12-tone elements and that explained everything My initial thoughts were: "Intellectual chaos, modern chaos and difficult". Karl recommended me SQ 12 of Shostakovich in another thread. Quote from: Tapio Dmitriyevich Shostakovich on December 17, 2011, 08:39:13 AM
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