Well, once I had to sing the National Anthem solo on stage, and it's in F. That is too high for most voices; I am a mezzo. It was too low for me; I had them move it up a notch into G -- and I knew for sure I'd be all alone on it -- (Mrs.) Frankie Anderson Wells College Michael Cassidy wrote: > My problem as a former trumpet player is that the key of G isn't > higher or lower; it depends on the pitch the musician is asked to sing > or play. > A baritone just wrote me: > > A song in G may require a sopano to hit a high C that > might be easier for her to sing if it was transposed > down to say F. (Opera singers would do this all the > time). A song in A could just as easily have a > narrower range, so the singer who would have trouble > with a song in G might have no trouble in a song whose > tonic is a whole note higher. > > That said, there are bodies of songs that tend to have > the same range, so a folk or blues singer may find > themselves singing in the same key because all of > their repertoire uses pretty much the same range. It > seldom makes use of difficult high or low notes within > the key. So you hear people say that a certain key is > too high. I tend to sing blues, folk, rock in G, > which fits my voice and my hands. > > Something tells me that two song writers would know this. > > On Feb 28, 2005, at 11:33 AM, Honor Conklin wrote: > >> I found a reference to the song in: >> >> Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang. New York: >> Random House, 1994, V. 1, "A-G," p. 851 >> >> "up in G" is a reference to the key of G in music and means "doing very >> well" and "at or to a high point" >> > > Is there no explanation where they got this? >