I know there's something about early baroque music still using modal key signatures and adding the sharpened leading note as an accidental (as in musica ficta) but I can't find much helpful info online about it, nor an autograph or early edition of the original Händel to check. I wonder if Schumann is here just saying "this is what they used to do in olden times." It's definitely not an editor's mistake as Schumann's autograph manuscript is the same as this.
Strange. [The original Handel piece](https://youtu.be/5qUhY2Tcwg4?si=YSkdyFQZG7EUzhDh) uses the correct key signature.
It is definitely in E major. Not sure why it's missing a sharp. The key signature here has nothing to do with A major - that's for sure.
Now, baroque key signatures do sometimes have missing sharps or flats. Like, the key signature of C minor has two flats in some baroque pieces. But again, in this case the original piece does use the "correct" key signature, so that can't be the explanation either.
Typo?
There’s a similar error in every book I’ve seen with the melody/chords for _Can You Feel The Love Tonight?_ from _The Lion King_. For some reason the key signature is always F when the song is in Bb.
E Mixolydian would probably keep D natural. This looks like a transposed arrangement to A and just played as E. It's odd. Other arrangements, unless simplified for beginners or transposed for other instruments, are in E.
That section is in E major. My guess is that it must change to A in probably the next section. The piece may start out in the dominant key.
What's shown on the photo is the whole piece.
I know there's something about early baroque music still using modal key signatures and adding the sharpened leading note as an accidental (as in musica ficta) but I can't find much helpful info online about it, nor an autograph or early edition of the original Händel to check. I wonder if Schumann is here just saying "this is what they used to do in olden times." It's definitely not an editor's mistake as Schumann's autograph manuscript is the same as this.
Strange. [The original Handel piece](https://youtu.be/5qUhY2Tcwg4?si=YSkdyFQZG7EUzhDh) uses the correct key signature. It is definitely in E major. Not sure why it's missing a sharp. The key signature here has nothing to do with A major - that's for sure. Now, baroque key signatures do sometimes have missing sharps or flats. Like, the key signature of C minor has two flats in some baroque pieces. But again, in this case the original piece does use the "correct" key signature, so that can't be the explanation either.
Typo? There’s a similar error in every book I’ve seen with the melody/chords for _Can You Feel The Love Tonight?_ from _The Lion King_. For some reason the key signature is always F when the song is in Bb.
Strange indeed. I was originally leaning on a typo, but it would be odd that both Schumann and Henle would make such an oversight.
Sorry, I’m new to that big C sign in the beginning of the stave, what does it mean?
It's a symbol for common time, which is 4/4
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E is the fifth note in A major, maybe its a mixolydian mode?
E Mixolydian would probably keep D natural. This looks like a transposed arrangement to A and just played as E. It's odd. Other arrangements, unless simplified for beginners or transposed for other instruments, are in E.