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  2. Natural (music) - Wikipedia

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    These notes correspond to the white keys on the keyboard of a piano. A key signature with no sharps or flats generally indicates A minor or C major, using all natural notes with no sharps or flats. The natural sign is derived from a square b used to denote B ♮ in medieval music (in contrast with the round b denoting B ♭, which became the ...

  3. 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.

  4. Key signature - Wikipedia

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    No. 18 of Anton Reicha's Practische Beispiele in Bmajor [4] shows B♯, E♯, A, D, G, C, F. In tuning systems where the number of notes per octave is not a multiple of 12, notes such as G ♯ and A ♭ are not enharmonically equivalent, nor are the corresponding key signatures.

  5. C major - Wikipedia

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    See also List of symphonies in C major.) Many masses and settings of the Te Deum in the Classical era were in C major. Mozart and Haydn wrote most of their masses in C major. [3] Gounod (in a review of Sibelius' Third Symphony) said that "only God composes in C major". Six of his own masses are written in C. [4]

  6. Key signature names and translations - Wikipedia

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    When a musical key or key signature is referred to in a language other than English, that language may use the usual notation used in English (namely the letters A to G, along with translations of the words sharp, flat, major and minor in that language): languages which use the English system include Irish, Welsh, Hindi, Japanese (based on katakana in iroha order), Korean (based on hangul in ...

  7. Enharmonic equivalence - Wikipedia

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    A musical passage notated as flats. The same passage notated as sharps, requiring fewer canceling natural signs. Sets of notes that involve pitch relationships — scales, key signatures, or intervals, [1] for example — can also be referred to as enharmonic (e.g., the keys of Cmajor and D ♭ major contain identical pitches and are therefore enharmonic).

  8. Accidental (music) - Wikipedia

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    The modern accidental signs derive from the two forms of the lower-case letter b used in Gregorian chant manuscripts to signify the two pitches of B, the only note that could be altered. The "round" b became the flat sign, while the "square" b diverged into the sharp and natural signs.

  9. Major scale - Wikipedia

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    The sound frequency doubles for corresponding notes from one octave to the next. The ratio is 3/2 = 1.5 for a perfect fifth, for example from C to G on a major scale, and 5/4 = 1.25 for a major third, for example from C to E. A major scale may be seen as two identical tetrachords separated by a whole tone.