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  2. A major - Wikipedia

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    A major is a major scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, C ♯, D, E, F ♯, and G ♯.Its key signature has three sharps.Its relative minor is F-sharp minor and ...

  3. Major scale - Wikipedia

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    The major scale (or Ionian mode) is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music. It is one of the diatonic scales. Like many musical scales, it is made up of seven notes: the eighth duplicates the first at double its frequency so that it is called a higher octave of the same note (from Latin "octavus", the eighth).

  4. Ionian mode - Wikipedia

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    The Ionian mode is a musical mode or, in modern usage, a diatonic scale also called the major scale.It is named after the Ionian Greeks.. It is the name assigned by Heinrich Glarean in 1547 to his new authentic mode on C (mode 11 in his numbering scheme), which uses the diatonic octave species from C to the C an octave higher, divided at G (as its dominant, reciting tone/reciting note or tenor ...

  5. Major and minor - Wikipedia

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    Major and minor may also refer to scales and chords that contain a major third or a minor third, respectively. A major scale is a scale in which the third scale degree (the mediant) is a major third above the tonic note. In a minor scale, the third degree is a minor third above the tonic. Similarly, in a major triad or major seventh chord, the ...

  6. A-flat major - Wikipedia

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    A-flat major was the flattest major key to be used as the home key for the keyboard and piano sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven, with each of them using the key for two sonatas: Scarlatti's K. 127 and K. 130, Haydn's Hob XVI 43 and 46, and Beethoven's Op. 26 and Op. 110, while Franz Schubert used it for one ...

  7. List of musical scales and modes - Wikipedia

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    Chord-scale system. Heptatonic scale. Jazz scale. List of chord progressions. List of chords. List of musical intervals. List of pitch intervals. Arabian maqam. Modes of limited transposition.

  8. Pentatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale). Pentatonic scales were developed independently by many ancient civilizations [ 2 ] and are still used in various musical styles to this day.

  9. Key signature - Wikipedia

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    Key signature showing F ♯ and C ♯ (the key of D major or B minor) In Western musical notation, a key signature is a set of sharp (♯), flat (♭), or rarely, natural (♮) symbols placed on the staff at the beginning of a section of music. The initial key signature in a piece is placed immediately after the clef at the beginning of the ...