key transposition

you drive us on deep waters, but i like to swim on deep waters. in key transpositions, in my layman's opinion (I used to play violin and guitar, however), beatles or yes were masters (not only in major and minor ones). Yes in addition used in a magnificient way a contrapunct, but that would be for the new topic enough. I absolutely agree that individual keys have they own mood and character. But of course, for the layman's ears it is hard to differentiate between e.g. D and A or C when just listening. Sometimes when you try to play it, you find that the song is not that complicated as you had thought before. But it is a genius, to make great buildings with the simple stones. By the way, very nice are the fluent transpositions from major to minor or vice versa. just listen 'my room' of VDGG on 'still life'. 

modulating between keys within a song and transposing a song to a different key are two different things.....maybe im misunderstanding you though

hopelevre wrote: iwas thinking about requiems and this question came to mind.....the different keys are widely thought to have their own certain character or flavor(C major-triumphant, A flat major- key of the grave/ solemn , etc.).....i was wondering if you can think of any instances in prog or elsewhere(i would assume it would be in prog if it were anywhere), where the key of a really famous work of one of the greats( something most people would recognize if hearing, like the waltz from carmen or the sweet pathos in beethoven's 5th)is transposed to such a distant(different) key that the mood or tone of the song itself actually changes....i guess what im getting at as well would be this....every song can be transposed into every key, how much if at all does a key transposition really affect the way we hear a song? is the intervallic symmetry enough that the song remains the same song, or is some internal characteristic lost by this frequency change?

I have no f**king idea

Edited by mwb498

iwas thinking about requiems and this question came to mind.....the different keys are widely thought to have their own certain character or flavor(C major-triumphant, A flat major- key of the grave/ solemn , etc.).....i was wondering if you can think of any instances in prog or elsewhere(i would assume it would be in prog if it were anywhere), where the key of a really famous work of one of the greats( something most people would recognize if hearing, like the waltz from carmen or the sweet pathos in beethoven's 5th)is transposed to such a distant(different) key that the mood or tone of the song itself actually changes....i guess what im getting at as well would be this....every song can be transposed into every key, how much if at all does a key transposition really affect the way we hear a song? is the intervallic symmetry enough that the song remains the same song, or is some internal characteristic lost by this frequency change?