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In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a musical composition in Western classical music, art music, and pop music. Tonality (from "Tonic") or key: Music which uses the notes of a particular scale is said to be "in the key of" that scale or in the tonality of that scale. [1]
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Originally the Notenbuch was a bound volume comprising forty-eight pages of blank music paper, with eight staves on each page. Inscribed with the words Pour le clavecin (French: For the harpsichord), it was presented to Nannerl on the occasion of her eighth name day on 26 July 1759 (or possibly her eighth birthday, which fell on the 30th or 31st day of the same month).
Tune books were large oblong-shaped books with hard covers (nine inches by six inches was a typical size), often running to over four hundred pages. They included both music and text and were introduced by an extended essay on the rudiments of singing. Each song was known by the name given to its tune rather than by a title drawn from the text ...
Music book may refer to: Sheet music, written or printed musical notation; Song book, a book of song lyrics; Musical book, the libretto or script of a musical play; Choirbook, a large manuscript used by choirs during the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Thunderstruck may refer to: "Thunderstruck" (song), a 1990 song by AC/DC; Thunderstruck, a 2004 Australian film; Thunderstruck, a 2006 book by Erik Larson; Thunderstruck, a 2012 American film; Thunderstruck (short story collection), a 2014 short story collection by Elizabeth McCracken
The universal key or universal scale is a concept employed in music theory in which specific notes or chord symbols in a key signature are replaced with numbers or Roman numerals, so that the relationships between notes or chords can be universally applied to any key signature.
The title page of the first book of J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, which covers all 24 major and minor keys. There is a long tradition in classical music of writing music in sets of pieces that cover all the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale.