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- A-flat_major abstract "The A-flat major scale consists of the pitches A♭, B♭, C, D♭, E♭, F, and G. Its key signature has four flats (see below: Scales and keys).Its relative minor is F minor, and its parallel minor is A-flat minor.It was used quite often by Franz Schubert; twenty-four of Frédéric Chopin's piano pieces are in A-flat major, more than any other key. Beethoven chose A-flat major as the key of the slow movement for most of his C minor works, a practice which Anton Bruckner imitated in his first two C minor symphonies and also Antonín Dvořák in his only C minor symphony.Since A-flat major was not often chosen as the main key for orchestral works of the 18th Century, passages or movements in the key often retained the timpani settings of the preceding movement. For example, Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor has the timpani set to C and G for the first movement. With hand tuned timpani, there is no time to retune the timpani to A-flat and E-flat for the slow second movement in A-flat; accordingly, the timpani in this movement are reserved for the passages in C major. In Bruckner's Symphony No. 1 in C minor, however, the timpani are retuned between the first movement in C minor and the following in A-flat major.Charles-Marie Widor considered A-flat major to be the second best key for flute music.Sir Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 1 in A-flat major is probably the best-known symphony in that key in the standard orchestral repertoire.[citation needed] However, Arnold Bax's 7th Symphony is also in the same key. A-flat major was the flattest major key to be used as the home key for the keyboard and piano sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven, with each of them using the key for two sonatas: Scarlatti's K. 127 and K. 130, Haydn's Hob XVI 43 and 46, and Beethoven's Op. 26 and Op. 110, while Franz Schubert used it for one piano sonata. It was also the flattest major key to be used for the preludes and fugues in Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier, as flatter major keys were notated as their enharmonic equivalents. Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, John Field, and Friedrich Kalkbrenner each wrote one piano concerto in A-flat (Mendelssohn's being for two pianos); they had the horns and trumpet tuned to E-flat. Max Bruch's Concerto for Two Pianos in A-flat minor has its last movement in A-flat major, which is the parallel major; this concerto plays with the contrast between the two keys. Works for stringed instruments in this key include Antonín Dvořák's String Quartet No. 14 and Benjamin Godard's Violin Sonata No. 4.".
- A-flat_major thumbnail A-flat-major_f-minor.svg?width=300.
- A-flat_major wikiPageID "1969923".
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- A-flat_major dominant E-flat_major.
- A-flat_major fifthPitch "E".
- A-flat_major firstPitch "A".
- A-flat_major fourthPitch "D".
- A-flat_major hasPhotoCollection A-flat_major.
- A-flat_major imageName "A-flat-major_f-minor.svg".
- A-flat_major name "A major".
- A-flat_major parallel A-flat_minor.
- A-flat_major parallel "enharmonic: G minor".
- A-flat_major relative F_minor.
- A-flat_major secondPitch "B".
- A-flat_major seventhPitch "G".
- A-flat_major sixthPitch "F".
- A-flat_major subdominant D-flat_major.
- A-flat_major thirdPitch "C".
- A-flat_major subject Category:Major_scales.
- A-flat_major subject Category:Musical_keys.
- A-flat_major type Abstraction100002137.
- A-flat_major type Communication100033020.
- A-flat_major type DiatonicScale106860323.
- A-flat_major type MajorScale106860826.
- A-flat_major type MajorScales.
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- A-flat_major type MusicalNotation106814870.
- A-flat_major type Notation106808493.
- A-flat_major type Scale106856568.
- A-flat_major type Scale113850304.
- A-flat_major type Standard107260623.
- A-flat_major type SystemOfMeasurement113577171.
- A-flat_major type Writing106359877.
- A-flat_major type WrittenCommunication106349220.
- A-flat_major comment "The A-flat major scale consists of the pitches A♭, B♭, C, D♭, E♭, F, and G. Its key signature has four flats (see below: Scales and keys).Its relative minor is F minor, and its parallel minor is A-flat minor.It was used quite often by Franz Schubert; twenty-four of Frédéric Chopin's piano pieces are in A-flat major, more than any other key.".
- A-flat_major label "A-flat major".
- A-flat_major label "As majeur".
- A-flat_major label "As-Dur".
- A-flat_major label "As-dur".
- A-flat_major label "La bemol mayor".
- A-flat_major label "La bemolle maggiore".
- A-flat_major label "La bémol majeur".
- A-flat_major label "Lá bemol maior".
- A-flat_major label "Ля-бемоль мажор".
- A-flat_major label "変イ長調".
- A-flat_major label "降A大調".
- A-flat_major sameAs As-Dur.
- A-flat_major sameAs La_bemol_mayor.
- A-flat_major sameAs La_bémol_majeur.
- A-flat_major sameAs La_bemolle_maggiore.
- A-flat_major sameAs 変イ長調.
- A-flat_major sameAs 내림가장조.
- A-flat_major sameAs As_majeur.
- A-flat_major sameAs As-dur.
- A-flat_major sameAs Lá_bemol_maior.
- A-flat_major sameAs m.069w_0.
- A-flat_major sameAs Q719309.
- A-flat_major sameAs Q719309.
- A-flat_major sameAs A-flat_major.
- A-flat_major wasDerivedFrom A-flat_major?oldid=603934999.
- A-flat_major depiction A-flat-major_f-minor.svg.
- A-flat_major isPrimaryTopicOf A-flat_major.