M&D p 172 spoiler question

[Jeremy Osner]

Brian D. McCary wrote:
> 
> Spoiler













In a related vein, do you know anything about "that most martial of
keys, B-flat major"? (I'm not sure what page, it's mentioned in the 40's
or 50's somewhere during the fight between the Seahorse and L'Grand.

Jeremy

> 
> 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.
> 
> 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?