B flats keep popping up in the strangest places!

I note that much of my own humble music is in or on B-flat*. I even titled a piece for Flute and Piano On B Flat . . . for lack of a better title. (It was resolutely on the note B flat, not in the key of B flat, since the piano basically played B flat Dorian while the flute played B flat Mixolydian.) My very first rag may have started on F (a very Hindemithian sort of rag, not being in F, of course) but it ended on B flat (also, like the flute piece, bi-modal through the last section). I sketched the themes for a symphony, years ago, and it, too, is in B flat. Or, I mean, on B flat. Lots of B flats involved.

Yes, there's something universal about B (flat!).

Click the LISTEN button on the NPR page to hear the hilarious song-and-report.

* Actually, since I started music with the French horn, I tend to favor F. But its subdominant does dominate my thoughts. On the other hand, I'm doing a lot on E these days. The devil I say.

A real composer would not favor one note over the others, eh?

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