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E major

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E major (or the key of E) is a major scale based on E, with the pitches E, sharp, sharp, A, B, sharp, and sharp. [1]

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A (musical note)

La or A is the sixth note of the fixed-do solfège.

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A major

A major (or the key of A) is a major scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, sharp, D, E, sharp, and sharp.

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Alexander Scriabin

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Скря́бин; –) was a Russian composer and pianist.

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Anton Bruckner

Josef Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets.

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Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian Baroque musical composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric.

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B (musical note)

B, also known as Si, Ti, or, in some European countries, H, is the seventh note of the fixed-Do solfège.

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B major

B major (or the key of B) is a major scale based on B. The pitches B, sharp, sharp, E, sharp, sharp, and sharp are all part of the B major scale.

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Bariolage

The bowed string instrument musical technique bariolage (or, since the word is a noun rather than an adjective, "odd mixture of colours", from the verb barioler, "to streak with several colors") involves, "the alternation of notes on adjacent strings, one of which is usually open",Stowell, Robin (1990).

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C minor

C minor is a minor scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, flat, F, G, flat, and flat.

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C-sharp minor

C minor is a minor scale based on sharp, with the pitches C, sharp, E, sharp, sharp, A, and B. Its key signature consists of four sharps.

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Carl Nielsen

Carl August Nielsen (9 June 18653 October 1931) was a Danish musician, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.

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C♯ (musical note)

C (C-sharp) is a musical note lying a chromatic semitone above C and a diatonic semitone below D. C-sharp is thus enharmonic to flat.

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Chord (music)

A chord, in music, is any harmonic set of pitches consisting of two or more (usually three or more) notes (also called "pitches") that are heard as if sounding simultaneously.

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Chord names and symbols (popular music)

Musicians use various kinds of chord names and symbols in different contexts, to represent musical chords.

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Clock chime

A clock chime is a melody played at intervals, usually during or on the hour, to mark the passage of time.

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Contemplation

Contemplation is profound thinking about something.

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D minor

D minor is a minor scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F, G, A, flat, and C. Its key signature has one flat.

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D♯ (musical note)

D (D-sharp) or re dièse is the fourth semitone of the solfège.

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Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич|Dmitriy Dmitrievich Shostakovich,; 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist.

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E (musical note)

E is the third note of the C major scale, and mi in fixed-do solfège.

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E minor

E minor is a minor scale based on E, consisting of the pitches E, sharp, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has one sharp.

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F♯ (musical note)

F♯ (F-sharp; also known as fa dièse or fi) is the seventh semitone of the solfège.

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Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early romantic period.

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Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin (1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano.

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G♯ (musical note)

G♯ (G-sharp) or sol dièse is the ninth semitone of the solfège.

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Havergal Brian

Havergal Brian (born William Brian; 29 January 187628 November 1972) was a British classical composer.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period.

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Joseph Haydn

(Franz) Joseph HaydnSee Haydn's name.

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Key (music)

In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a music composition in classical, Western art, and Western pop music.

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Key signature

In musical notation, a key signature is a set of sharp, flat, and rarely, natural symbols placed together on the staff.

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List of symphonies in E major

This is a list of symphonies in E major written by notable composers.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770Beethoven was baptised on 17 December. His date of birth was often given as 16 December and his family and associates celebrated his birthday on that date, and most scholars accept that he was born on 16 December; however there is no documentary record of his birth.26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Major and minor

In Western music, the adjectives major and minor can describe a musical composition, movement, section, scale, key, chord, or interval.

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Major scale

The major scale (or Ionian scale) is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music.

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Musical tuning

In music, there are two common meanings for tuning.

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Nocturnes, Op. 62 (Chopin)

The two Nocturnes Op.

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Palace of Westminster

The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Parallel key

In music, a major scale and a minor scale that have the same tonic are called parallel keys and are said to be in a parallel relationship.

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Partita for Violin No. 3 (Bach)

The Partita No.

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Piano Concerto No. 1 (Chopin)

The Piano Concerto No.

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Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)

The Piano Concerto No.

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Piano Concerto No. 3 (Beethoven)

The Piano Concerto No.

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Piano Quartet No. 3 (Brahms)

The Piano Quartet No.

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Piano Sonata No. 30 (Beethoven)

Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.

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Piano Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven)

The Piano Sonata No.

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English.

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Relative key

In music, relative keys are the major and minor scales that have the same key signatures.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (28 March 1943) was a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the Romantic repertoire.

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Sharp (music)

In music, sharp, dièse (from French), or diesis (from Greek) means higher in pitch.

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Subdominant

In music, the subdominant is the technical name for the fourth tonal degree of the diatonic scale.

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Symphony No. 1 (Brahms)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 1 (Brian)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 1 (Scriabin)

Alexander Scriabin's Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 10 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 12 (Haydn)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 29 (Haydn)

Joseph Haydn's Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 4 (Nielsen)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 7 (Bruckner)

Anton Bruckner's Symphony No.

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The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)

The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year.

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Tonic (music)

In music, the tonic is the first scale degree of a diatonic scale (the first note of a scale) and the tonal center or final resolution tone that is commonly used in the final cadence in tonal (musical key-based) classical music, popular music and traditional music.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)

Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, is his last large orchestral work.

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Violin Concerto in E major (Bach)

The Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042, by Johann Sebastian Bach is a concerto based on the three-movement Venetian concerto model, albeit with a few unusual features as each movement has "un-Italian characteristics".

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Westminster Quarters

The Westminster Quarters is the most common name for a clock chime melody used by a set of four bells to chime on each quarter-hour.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_major

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