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Jazz compositions originally or most commonly played in the key of G major. Pages in category "Jazz compositions in G major" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
Sonata in G major (HWV 358) Sonata in G major for two flutes and basso continuo, BWV 1039; Sonatina in G major (attributed to Beethoven) St. Cecilia Mass; Stand and Sing of Zambia, Proud and Free; Ständchen, WAB 84.2; State Anthem of Uzbekistan; String Duo No. 1 (Mozart) String Quartet No. 3 (Britten) String Quartet No. 1 (Mozart)
In Baroque music, G major was regarded as the "key of benediction". [1] Of Domenico Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas, G major is the home key for 69, or about 12.4%, sonatas. In the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, "G major is often a key of 6 8 chain rhythms", according to Alfred Einstein, [2] although Bach also used the key for some 4
The key may be in the major or minor mode, though musicians assume major when this is not specified; for example "This piece is in C" implies that the key of the piece is C major. Popular songs and classical music from the common practice period are usually in one key.
Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major, K. 313 (1778) Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 314 (1778) (an arrangement of the above Oboe Concerto) Andante for flute and orchestra in C major, K. 315/285e (1778) Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622 (1791; originally was for basset horn and was in the key of G major) Bassoon Concerto in B ♭ major, K ...
Mussorgsky (completed by Stravinsky) – Khovanshchina (E-g ♯) The key scheme in the opera is constructed mostly on a sharp-flat principle; thus the opening, reaching G ♯ major, is the sharpest music in the whole opera, and many portentions or descriptions of disaster in the opera are written in six or seven flats or even beyond.
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.
In many styles of popular and traditional music, chord progressions are expressed using the name and "quality" of the chords. For example, the previously mentioned chord progression, in the key of E ♭ major, would be written as E ♭ major–B ♭ major–C minor–A ♭ major in a fake book or lead sheet.