Major key and scale based on the note F
F major (or the key of F ) is a major scale based on F, with the pitches F, G, A, B♭, C, D, and E. Its key signature has one flat.[1] Its relative minor is D minor and its parallel minor is F minor .
The F major scale is:
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F major is the home key of the English horn , the basset horn , the horn in F, the trumpet in F and the bass Wagner tuba . Thus, music in F major for these transposing instruments is written in C major . Most of these sound a perfect fifth lower than written, with the exception of the trumpet in F which sounds a fourth higher. (The basset horn also often sounds an octave and a fifth lower.)
Scale degree chords
Notable compositions in F major Antonio Vivaldi Trio sonata Op. 1/5 for two violins and basso continuo, RV 69Violin sonata Op. 2/4 , RV 20Violin sonata Op. 5/1 , RV 18Violin concerto Op. 3/7 from L'estro armonico , for four violins and orchestra, RV 567Violin concerto Op. 4/9 from La Stravaganza , RV 284Violin concerto Op. 7/10 , Il Ritiro , RV 294Violin concerto Op. 8/3, Autumn from The four seasons , RV 293Flute concerto Op. 10/1 , RV 433, La tempesta di mare Flute concerto Op. 10/5, RV 434 Johann Sebastian Bach Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 6 , Op. 68 ("Pastoral")Symphony No. 8 , Op. 93Romance No. 2 for violin and orchestra , Op. 50String Quartet No. 1 , Op. 18/1String Quartet No. 7 , Op. 59/1String Quartet No. 16 , Op. 135Violin Sonata No. 5 , Op. 24 (Frühling)Piano Sonata No. 6 , Op. 10/2Piano Sonata No. 22 , Op. 54Horn Sonata , Op. 17Carl Maria von Weber Franz Schubert Felix Mendelssohn Franz Liszt Frédéric Chopin Charles-Valentin Alkan Johannes Brahms Anton Bruckner Maurice Ravel George Gershwin Dmitri Shostakovich Antonín Dvořák
See also
References ^ Music Theory . (1950). United States: Standards and Curriculum Division, Training, Bureau of Naval Personnel. 28.
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