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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]
Motif A' is developed next, first in F ♯ minor (p e leggiero) and G ♭ major before making a modulation to D ♭ major. The much briefer development of theme B follows, "floating ethereally above deep, hushed piano chords", [4] and leading to the recapitulation. There, motif A' is heard in F ♯ minor, and theme B in A major, rising to a ...
The title page of the first book of J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, which covers all 24 major and minor keys. There is a long tradition in classical music of writing music in sets of pieces that cover all the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale.
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] A particular key features a tonic note and its corresponding chords, also called a tonic or tonic chord, which provides a subjective sense of arrival and rest, and also has a unique ...
Major/minor compositions are musical compositions that begin in a major key and end in a minor key (generally the parallel minor), specifying the keynote (as C major/minor). This is a very unusual form in tonal music, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] although examples became more common in the nineteenth century. [ 3 ]
The pitch collection is related to the octatonic scale, the whole tone scale, and the French sixth, all of which are capable of a different number of transpositions. [4] For example, the chord is a whole tone scale with one note raised a semitone (the "almost whole-tone" hexachord , sometimes identified as "whole tone-plus"), and this ...
Concerto a cinque in D major, for violin, strings, and continuo; Concerto a otto strumenti in D major, for violin solo, two trumpets, two oboes, strings, and continuo (1711) Henri Vieuxtemps. Violin Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 10 (1840) Violin Concerto No. 2 in F-sharp minor, Op. 19 (ca. 1835–36) Violin Concerto No. 3 in A major, Op. 25 (1844)
Alive in Seattle is a live DVD and album released in 2003 by the American rock band Heart. It is a recording of their final concert in Seattle, during their "Summer of Love Tour" in summer 2002. The show included many of their greatest hits and some new songs. The soundtrack of the concert was released in a double-CD package.