7:43 AM
@Robusto Ah, but see. You're treating this like a serious question worth investigating. Which, as far as the song at hand is concerned, it actually is. As you've only just demonstrated. And that's the really sad part. That it totally should be the question they're asking.
Should be, but is not. This is MuseScore.
So let me paraphrase their actual question for you. "I see that there are no sharps or flats in the key signature; I see that the first note is an A; and I see that the chord symbol right under that note reads 'Am'. So that makes me wonder: is this in E minor? Because I need this in E minor. Is this E minor? Thanks so much!"
And I'm paraphrasing only ever so slightly, mind. They did literally ask if this was in E minor. You can go and check.
So yeah. Rather than writing up something actually interesting and worthwhile, as you just had the privilege to, I had the privilege to write up that no, this is not in E, this is in A. But MuseScore has a button that will let you transpose the score to any key. It's the button that says "Transpose". If you click it, you'll be able to transpose.
Every word that you just wrote is worth pandering about, but alas, every word that you just wrote would fly straight over the asker's head. You'd be casting pearls before creatures not interested in pearls.
I also explained to them that they shouldn't transpose, actually. That this was a professional arrangement where the key was very carefully hand-picked. The fingering is exceptionally comfortable, and the entire piece is playable by a complete beginner, all of it in first position, which is the easiest position and the first one that you learn.
E minor is a fifth up from this, which is completely unplayable for a beginner. You're pretty much playing at the bridge at that point. Hilary Hahn can find the notes there. You can't.
You can take it a fourth down instead, but then the fingering is actually quite hard. If you take it down, it should be by a fifth, giving you D minor not E. Then you can play the exact same fingering as indicated, just a string lower.
However, then you have no room left for the second violin. It will have to constantly cross voices with you, or you will have to find a viola or a cello instead.
That is what I had to talk about instead of talking about Picardy thirds. They don't know what a "Picardy" is. Or a "third". They don't even know what "Am" means, or what the key signature for Em would be.
Anyhoo. To answer your question, that is also why I don't write double stops. Because I write for noobs like myself.
Noobs like myself can't play double stops. They can barely hit one note correctly, much less two notes at once. In fact they spend the first couple years learning how to not hit two strings at once by accident, and only play one single note cleanly.
And then once you master that, if you ever master that, then you need to unlearn it all again to be able to play on two strings at once.
I don't know who invented the violin, but they must've been really, really, really drunk.
I read an example of the word "dearer" in Merriam Webster Dictionaries which was:
Eggs are very dear just now.
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