![]() You can look at the "G# Maj." key in a couple of different ways, (1) as a disregarded, feared and denounced part of music and music theory, very much like the dreaded locrian and diminished modes - to be avoided at all cost. Fortunately, I have not been faced with a concert pitch piece in B major while playing the alto or baritone sax. Nonetheless, if you are playing music in concert pitch by sight then G# might be slightly better as transposing up a major 6th will be familiar to many Eb instrument players (I have done it many times) but transposing up a diminished 7th will be much less familiar (I have never done it). However, this will be a surprising key for a saxophone player. G# major is so crazy that it would be more practical to rewrite it as Ab major provided that you regard that as the same. However, if you transpose on sight with these instruments then you need to be comfortable with some quite wild keys.Īddition suggested by phoog's comment. If the piece is intended for these instruments then these keys are unlikely. Some instruments are pitched in Eb so if the non-transposing instruments are playing in B major (not so unusual) then the Eb instruments will have to play in G# major. For example, if the non-transposing instruments are playing in F# major then the Bb instruments will have to play in G# major. These unusual keys are more likely with transposing instruments.
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