M&D p 172 spoiler question

[Dan Schmidt]

bdm at storz.com (Brian D. McCary) writes:

| Anyone have any idea about the emotional state to be invoked by
| F# minor?  "Her voice affects him like music in F-sharp minor, 
| drawing him to the dire promise."  I'm assuming he is in a natural
| tuning, so that F# minor would be differant from, say, F minor, but 
| there must be a root scale then, and I'm not sure what it would be.
| Maybe one of you musicologists has run across some old writings on
| the emotional content of various scales.

Not sure exactly how F# minor is supposed to feel.  The only piece of
that period in F# minor that I know of is Haydn's Farewell Symphony.

| Plus, while I'm at it, does anyone have any info on this Quantz, 
| who wrote the Etudes Slowcombe the Seahorse piper mentions on 53,
| and the transcriptions Aunt Euphrenia plays on oboe as soundtrack
| for the narration on 104?

Quantz lived from 1697 to 1773, OK Baroque composer, wrote tons of
flute music.  Nowadays it is played mostly by students.

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