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"Cupid" is written in common time in the key of D major with a tempo of 120 beats per minute, with the group's vocals ranging from a low note of G 3 to a high note of E♭ 5. [23] It is a "retro"-sounding [ 10 ] K-pop , [ 3 ] disco-pop , [ 24 ] synth-pop , [ 25 ] and bubblegum [ 26 ] song that runs for about three minutes.
While English-language versions of K-pop songs are increasingly common, they are usually rolled out after the original and frequently feel like an afterthought. That’s not the case here.
In Japan, "Ue o Muite Arukō" topped the Popular Music Selling Record chart in the Japanese magazine Music Life for three months, and was ranked as the number one song of 1961 in Japan. In the US, "Sukiyaki" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963, one of the few non-English songs to have done so, and the first in a non-European language.
An American version by Jewel Akens with different English lyrics was written for it. Titled "My First Lonely Night (Sukiyaki)" in 1966, the song reached number 82 on the Billboard Hot 100. On 16 March 1999, Japan Post issued a stamp commemorating Sakamoto and "Ue o Muite Arukō". [ 11 ]
A lesser-known work in the key is the Moderato in E major, WN 56. Moritz Moszkowski wrote his Piano Concerto Op. 59 in E major. Antonín Dvořák wrote his Serenade for Strings Op. 22 in the key of E major. Charles-Valentin Alkan wrote Cello Sonata in E major, and so did Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart in his Op. 19.
F ♭ is a common enharmonic equivalent of E, but is not regarded as the same note. F ♭ is commonly found after E ♭ in the same measure in pieces where E ♭ is in the key signature, in order to represent a diatonic, rather than a chromatic semitone; writing an E ♭ with a following E ♮ is regarded as a chromatic alteration of one scale ...
In the key of C major, these would be: D minor, E minor, F major, G major, A minor, and C minor. Despite being three sharps or flats away from the original key in the circle of fifths, parallel keys are also considered as closely related keys as the tonal center is the same, and this makes this key have an affinity with the original key.
In major keys, the chords iii and vi are often substituted for the I chord, to add interest. In the key of C major, the I major 7 chord is "C, E, G, B," the iii chord ("III–7" [11]) is E minor 7 ("E, G, B, D") and the vi minor 7 chord is A minor 7 ("A, C, E, G"). Both of the tonic substitute chords use notes from the tonic chord, which means ...