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  1. “So, it’s B minor to B major.”

    And quite appropriate too when you realize that the underlying theme of it all is “B Mine.”

  2. The reworking of “Losing My Religion” just sounds weird to me. The original is much better.

    Regarding “Swan Lake,” thanks for posting the clip. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen the whole ballet, though I’ve seen clips of different bits over the years. What interested me about the clip now is that I recently saw a French film from 2010 called Of Gods and Men about French Trappist monks in Algeria in the 1990s when Islamic terrorists were becoming a threat to everyone in the country. One scene in the movie centered around the monks listening to a tape of this passage from “Swan Lake.” I recognized the music, but didn’t understand the context in the ballet, so the use of the music as an allusion in the film was lost on me until I saw the clip.

  3. I have seen several performances of swan lake.
    the last being this:
    Matthew Bourne’s “Swan Lake” (Fan Music Video)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtdO6ut8nMA

    at one time i was dating a choreographer and she took me to some plays. things turned around, i got a job, we parted, but i took her and a friend of hers to see the above version on Broadway… it won a tony…

    tell you the truth… i liked STOMP better…

  4. I think it was Doughtry who sang I Walk the Line in a minor key on American Idol. It blew my mind. Interestingly, I find that many of my piano students prefer minor keys to major.

  5. I went looking for the REM minor-major switch on YouTube, and found this, which I’m guessing is the same one as the Vimeo version:

    The text below it explains the change, which I’ll assume will interest you:

    R.E.M.’s famous ballad “Losing My Religion” digitally reworked with a major scale. The original song is in A minor. So in the middle section, when it goes to a chord rooted in the 6th scale degree, it goes into an F major chord.

    This edited version places the song into A major so when the middle section goes to the respective chord on its 6th scale degree it makes an F# minor chord.

    OK, more investigation, for those of you interested in music variants (I always enjoyed the Beatles’ “Past Masters”, as well as the bootleg “Big Pig” Ultra Rare Trax, that have stuff that is variants and/or music otherwise not well known)

    There’s a group that is doing this.

    Here’s a version of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in Major scale:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_TEOuyPDNo

    The suggested sidebar at that one has a lot of other songs (“Beat It”, “Sweet Dreams”, “Final Countdown”, “Personal Jesus”, for example) in key mod.

    video version here: http://vimeo.com/59745736
    Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/majorversusminor
    More altered music: http://www.lastfm.ru/music/MajorVsMinor

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