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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 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.
The key may be in the major or minor mode, though musicians assume major when this is not specified; for example "This piece is in C" implies that the key of the piece is C major. Popular songs and classical music from the common practice period are usually in one key.
Pages in category "Musical keys" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. ... Music written in all major or minor keys; 0–9. 1F (music) 1S ...
In the Classical period, C major was the key most often chosen for symphonies with trumpets and timpani. Even in the Romantic period, with its greater use of minor keys and the ability to use trumpets and timpani in any key, C major remained a very popular choice of key for a symphony. The following list includes only the most famous examples.
Compositions covering all major and/or minor keys (1 C, 20 P) Lists of symphonies by key (26 P)-Atonal compositions (2 C, 9 P) + Jazz compositions by key (21 C) A.
Suzannah Clark, a music professor at Harvard, connected the piece's resurgence in popularity to the harmonic structure, a common pattern similar to the romanesca.The harmonies are complex, but combine into a pattern that is easily understood by the listener with the help of the canon format, a style in which the melody is staggered across multiple voices (as in "Three Blind Mice"). [1]
Piano Sonata in A major, D 664 (Schubert) Piano Sonata No. 1 (Hindemith) Piano Sonata No. 2 (Beethoven) Piano Sonata No. 6 (Prokofiev) Piano Sonata No. 11 (Mozart) Piano Sonata No. 28 (Beethoven) Schubert's last sonatas; Piano Trio in A major (attributed to Brahms) Polonaises Op. 40 (Chopin) Psalm 146 (Bruckner)