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  2. A major - Wikipedia

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    Franz Schubert's Trout Quintet and Antonín Dvořák's Piano Quintet No. 2 are both in A major. Johannes Brahms, César Franck, and Gabriel Fauré wrote violin sonatas in A major. In connection to Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, Peter Cropper said that A major "is the fullest sounding key for the violin." [2]

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

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    With its tonic note being a white key on the piano, and its parallel minor (relative to E♭♭ major) having 10 flats, its usage is generally undesirable. C♭ major does appear in Campagnoli's and Rinck's works mentioned below, along with A# minor, but those collections include both members of all six enharmonically equivalent pairs.

  4. Violin technique - Wikipedia

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    Violin open string notes. Play ⓘ A special timbre results from playing a note without touching its string with a finger, thus sounding the lowest note on that string. Such a note is said to be played on an open string. Open string notes (G, D, A, E) have a very distinct sound resulting from the absence of the damping action of a finger, and ...

  5. Rondo in A major for Violin and Strings, D 438 (Schubert)

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    The Rondo for Violin and Strings, D 438, is a composition in A major by Franz Schubert. He wrote the rondo in 1816. Like the roughly contemporary Adagio and Rondo concertante in F major, D 487 , the work is a concertante piece designed to highlight the skills of the violin soloist.

  6. Piano key frequencies - Wikipedia

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    This list of frequencies is for a theoretically ideal piano. On an actual piano, the ratio between semitones is slightly larger, especially at the high and low ends, where string stiffness causes inharmonicity, i.e., the tendency for the harmonic makeup of each note to run sharp.

  7. List of major/minor compositions - Wikipedia

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    Beethoven – Piano trio No. 6 in E ♭ major, ii (C) [33] Beethoven – Violin Sonata No. 9, "Kreutzer", i (A) [34] Beethoven – Piano Quartet No. 1 in E ♭ WoO 36, i (and ii) (E ♭) [35] (although sometimes construed as two separate movements, they are not really separable as the first ends with a half-cadence leading into the second)

  8. Key (music) - Wikipedia

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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, jazz 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]

  9. B-flat major - Wikipedia

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    B-flat major is a major scale based on B ... Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Cello, Oboe and Bassoon; String Quartet Op. 76 No. 4 ... Violin Sonata No. 32; Piano ...