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  2. 24 Caprices for Solo Violin (Paganini) - Wikipedia

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    The opening 4 measures and the "A" section are in E-flat major, and the "B" section is in the relative minor (C minor). 20: D major: Allegretto: Caprice 20 is famous for the use of the D string as a drone, backdropping a lyrical melody on the A and E strings, imitating a bagpipe. This is followed by a rapid sixteenth note passage with trills ...

  3. D major - Wikipedia

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    In the Baroque period, D major was regarded as "the key of glory"; [1] hence many trumpet concertos were in D major, such as those by Johann Friedrich Fasch, Gross, Molter (No. 2), Leopold Mozart, Telemann (No. 2), and Giuseppe Torelli. Many trumpet sonatas were in D major, too, such as those by Corelli, Petronio Franceschini, Purcell, and

  4. Violin Concerto No. 4 (Paganini) - Wikipedia

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    The tempo marking here means "brisk and majestic". The movement modulates from D minor → F major → A minor → D minor → D major. The first movement begins with a powerful Beethoven-esque theme with striking similarity to the third movement of Vivaldi's Violin Concerto No. 6 consisting of a six-note melody, played by the viola and violin sections, punctuated by strong and syncopated ...

  5. 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 C ♯ major and Dmajor contain identical pitches and are therefore enharmonic).

  6. Key signature - Wikipedia

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    [9] [10] The key note or tonic of a piece in a major key is a semitone above the last sharp in the signature. [11] For example, the key of D major has a key signature of F ♯ and C ♯, and the tonic (D) is a semitone above C ♯. Each scale starting on the fifth scale degree of the previous scale has one new sharp, added in the order shown. [10]

  7. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    G 4 G 4 •C 5 C 5 •E 5 E 4 •A 4 A 4 •E 5 E 5 E 6 •D 4 D 4 •A 4 A 4 •G 5 G 4 •C 5 C 5 •G 5 G 5 G 6: Patasi Charango, Ranqha Charango Cochabamba, Bolivia Chillador: 10 strings 5 courses. Standard/common: G 3 G 3 •C 4 C 4 •E 4 E 3 •A 3 A 3 •E 4 E 4. Alternates: Same as charango. Andean mountains Essentially a flat-backed ...

  8. Major scale - Wikipedia

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    The pattern of whole and half steps characteristic of a major scale. The intervals from the tonic (keynote) in an upward direction to the second, to the third, to the sixth, and to the seventh scale degrees of a major scale are called major. [1] A major scale is a diatonic scale. The sequence of intervals between the notes of a major scale is:

  9. Caprice No. 24 (Paganini) - Wikipedia

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    David Ludwig – Violin Concerto No. 2: Paganiniana, (2018) for violin and Pierrot Ensemble; Witold Lutosławski – Variations on a Theme by Paganini, for two pianos (1940–41) or for piano and orchestra (1978) Yngwie Malmsteen – used the main theme for an interlude on electric guitar on the song Prophet of Doom, from his album War to End ...