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B ♭ (B-flat), or, in some European countries, B, is the eleventh step of the Western chromatic scale (starting from C). It lies a diatonic semitone above A and a chromatic semitone below B , [ 1 ] thus being enharmonic to A ♯ , even though in some musical tunings , B ♭ will have a different sounding pitch than A ♯ .
B-flat major is a major scale based on B ... The scale degree chords of B-flat major are: Tonic – B-flat major; Supertonic – C minor; Mediant – D minor;
B-flat minor is traditionally a 'dark' key. [ 1 ] The old valveless horn was barely capable of playing in B-flat minor: the only example found in 18th-century music is a modulation that occurs in the first minuet of Franz Krommer 's Concertino in D major , Op. 80.
Alterations from the natural diatonic chords can be specified as C 9 ♯ 11, A ♭ M9 ♯ 11... etc. Omission of the fifth in a raised 11th chord reduces its sound to a ♭ 5 chord. [8] C 9 ♯ 11 = C–E–(G)–B ♭ –D–F ♯ C–E–G ♭ –B ♭ –D = C 9 ♭ 5.
Since the term dim 7 (as in Bdim 7) meant something else, the accurate but unwieldy term "minor seventh flat five" (as in B ø 7) came to be used. [16] Despite the appearance of the word "diminished" in the name of this type of seventh chord, its sound differs considerably from that of a diminished seventh chord.
"b–a–c–h is beginning and end of all music" (Max Reger 1912) In music, the BACH motif is the motif, a succession of notes important or characteristic to a piece, B flat, A, C, B natural. In German musical nomenclature, in which the note B natural is named H and the B flat named B, it forms Johann Sebastian Bach's family name.
The Lydian scale can be described as a major scale with the fourth scale degree raised a semitone, making it an augmented fourth above the tonic; e.g., an F-major scale with a B ♮ rather than B ♭. That is, the Lydian mode has the following formula:
Drop B – B-F ♯-b-E-G ♯-C ♯ / B-G ♭-b-E-A ♭-D ♭ One and one half steps down from Drop D. This tuning is most often used by modern rock and heavy metal bands.