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  2. Music written in all major or minor keys - Wikipedia

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    Major keys ascending chromatically from C alternate with minor keys ascending chromatically from f. There is a final 25th Prayer in C major. [57] [58] Peregrin Feigerl (1803–1877) [59] 24 Etudes or Caprices 2 violins 1847 C5 [n] [60] Charles-Valentin Alkan: 12 Études in all the major keys, Op. 35 piano 1848 [ak]

  3. C major - Wikipedia

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    Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" is written in C major. Many musicians have pointed out that every musical key conjures up specific feelings. [5] This idea is further explored in a radio program called The Signature Series. American popular songwriter Bob Dylan claimed the key of C major to "be the key of strength, but also the key of regret". [6]

  4. Tonicization - Wikipedia

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    In a song in C major, if a composer treats another key as the tonic (for example, the ii chord, D minor) for a short period by alternating between A7 (the notes A, C#, E and G) and D minor, and then returns to the tonic (C major), this is a tonicization of the key of D minor. However, if a song in C major shifts to the key of D minor and stays ...

  5. Closely related key - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Key signature - Wikipedia

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    [9] [10] The key note or tonic of a piece in a major key is a semitone above the last sharp in the signature. [11] For example, the key of D major has a key signature of F ♯ and C ♯, and the tonic (D) is a semitone above C ♯. Each scale starting on the fifth scale degree of the previous scale has one new sharp, added in the order shown. [10]

  7. Aeolian mode - Wikipedia

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    The Aeolian mode is the sixth mode of the major scale, that is, it is formed by starting on the sixth degree of the major scale. For example, if the Aeolian mode is used in its all-white-note pitch based on A, this would be an A-minor triad, which would be the submediant in the relative major key of C major.

  8. Equivalence class (music) - Wikipedia

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    For example, the C major scale, G major scale, and the major scale in all keys, are not identical but share transpositional equivalence in that the size of the intervals between scale steps is identical while pitches are not (C major has F ♮ while G major has F ♯). The major third and the minor sixth are not identical but share inversional ...

  9. Starfield (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Starfield is an action role-playing video game.The player can switch between a first-person and third-person perspective at any time. The game features an open world in the form of an area within the Milky Way galaxy, containing both fictional and non-fictional planetary systems.