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E-flat major is a major scale based on E ♭, consisting of the pitches E ♭, F, G, A ♭, B ♭, C, and D. Its key signature has three flats . Its relative minor is C minor , and its parallel minor is E ♭ minor , (or enharmonically D ♯ minor ).
There can be up to seven flats in a key signature, applied as: B ♭ E ♭ A ♭ D ♭ G ♭ C ♭ F ♭ [9] [10] The major scale with one flat is F major. In all major scales with flat key signatures, the tonic in a major key is a perfect fourth below the last flat.
When a musical key or key signature is referred to in a language other than English, that language may use the usual notation used in English (namely the letters A to G, along with translations of the words sharp, flat, major and minor in that language): languages which use the English system include Irish, Welsh, Hindi, Japanese (based on katakana in iroha order), Korean (based on hangul in ...
E-flat minor is a minor scale based on E ♭, consisting of the pitches E ♭, F, G ♭, A ♭, B ♭, C ♭, and D ♭. Its key signature consists of six flats . Its relative key is G-flat major (or enharmonically F-sharp major ) and its parallel key is E-flat major .
Key signatures indicate which notes are to be played as sharps or flats in the music that follows, showing up to seven sharps or flats. Notes that are shown as sharp or flat in a key signature will be played that way in every octave—e.g., a key signature with a B ♭ indicates that every B is played as a B ♭.
(Such key signatures are used for so-called theoretical keys which are almost never encountered outside music-theoretical exercises.) [b] Keys with 6 flats and 6 sharps, [c] with 7 flats and 5 sharps [d] and with 5 flats and 7 sharps [e] are enharmonic to one another. Composers will, in most (though not all) cases, choose only one key from each ...
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In rare cases, the flat keys may be extended further: F ♭ → B → E → A → D → G → C. requiring double flats in the key signature. These are called theoretical key signatures, based on the impracticality of their use, rather than the simpler, equivalent key in 12 TET. This principle applies similarly to the sharp keys.