The only reason the music would sound 'wrong' would be if the listener/artist wrote it in a certain key, then heard it transposed. It's just familiarity. If I'd wrote some music in E, then transposed it to Eb and played it to somebody who had never heard the music in E, to them it would sound perfectly adequate. Also, if I then transposed it back to E and played it to them, they would probably say it sounds wrong ( even though E was the original key the music was written in )JonasEdenbrandt wrote:AK: Transposing your own stuff like that dosen't say that much. The problem is that you wrote the music and you know what key is "right" for it. Therefor you will think it sounds "wrong" when it's changed. Same probably goes for people who are very used to hearing music in a certain key.
Say if a classical music fan bought a CD of Beethovens 9th and the conductor desided that he was going to play it in DbMinor instead of DMinor the music fan would prolly feel that something was horibly wrong. What would have happend if it was written in DbMinor to begin with is actually what it's all about.