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C major

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C major (or the key of C) is a major scale based on C, with the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. C major is one of the most common key signatures used in western music. [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 minor

A minor is a minor scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Its key signature has no flats and no sharps.

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Arabeske (Schumann)

Robert Schumann wrote his Arabeske in C major, Op.

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Atonality

Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.

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Ave Maria ... Virgo serena

"Ave Maria...

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Étude Op. 10, No. 1 (Chopin)

Étude Op.

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Étude Op. 10, No. 7 (Chopin)

Étude Op. 10, No. 7, in C major, is a solo piano technical study composed by Frédéric Chopin around 18301832 and published in 1833.

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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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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Boléro

Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937).

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Brass instrument valve

Brass instrument valves are valves used to change the length of tubing of a brass instrument allowing the player to reach the notes of various harmonic series.

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C (musical note)

C (Do, Do, C) is the first note of the C major scale, the third note of the A minor scale (the relative minor of C major), and the fourth note (F, A, B, C) of the Guidonian hand, commonly pitched around 261.63 Hz.

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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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Cello Concerto No. 1 (Haydn)

The Cello Concerto No.

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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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Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer.

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Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra (Mozart)

The Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C major, K. 299/297c, is a concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for flute, harp, and orchestra.

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D (musical note)

D is a musical note a whole tone above C, and is known as Re within the fixed-Do solfege system.

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D major

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

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David Fanning (musicologist)

David Fanning (born 1955) is a professor of music at the University of Manchester.

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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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F (musical note)

F is a musical note, the fourth above C. It is also known as fa in fixed-do solfège.

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F major

F major (or the key of F) is a major scale based on F, with the pitches F, G, A, flat, C, D, and E. Its key signature has one flat: B. Its relative minor is D minor and its parallel minor is F minor.

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Fantasie in C (Schumann)

The Fantasie in C major, Op.

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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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Flat (music)

In music, flat or bemolle (Italian: "soft B") means "lower in pitch".

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Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.

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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)

Sol, so, or G is the fifth note of the fixed-do solfège starting on C. As such it is the dominant, a perfect fifth above C or perfect fourth below C. When calculated in equal temperament with a reference of A above middle C as 440 Hz, the frequency of middle G (G4) note is approximately 391.995 Hz.

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G major

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

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Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet (25 October 18383 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the romantic era.

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H. C. Robbins Landon

Howard Chandler Robbins Landon (March 6, 1926November 20, 2009) was an American musicologist, journalist, historian and broadcaster, best known for his work in rediscovering the huge body of neglected music by Haydn and in correcting misunderstandings about Mozart.

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Hector Berlioz

Louis-Hector Berlioz; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique, Harold en Italie, Roméo et Juliette, Grande messe des morts (Requiem), L'Enfance du Christ, Benvenuto Cellini, La Damnation de Faust, and Les Troyens. Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 compositions for voice, accompanied by piano or orchestra. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.

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In C

In C is a musical piece composed by Terry Riley in 1964 for an indefinite number of performers.

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Introduction and Polonaise brillante (Chopin)

Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major, Op.

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Jean Sibelius

Jean Sibelius, born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius (8 December 186520 September 1957), was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods.

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Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau (–) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century.

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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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Joseph Haydn

(Franz) Joseph HaydnSee Haydn's name.

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Josquin des Prez

Josquin des Prez (– 27 August 1521), often referred to simply as Josquin, was a French composer of the Renaissance.

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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 C major

This is a list of symphonies in C 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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Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French composer of the Baroque era.

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Mass in C major (Beethoven)

Ludwig van Beethoven composed the Mass in C major, Op.

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Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.

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Mazurkas, Op. 67 (Chopin)

The Op. 67 mazurkas by Frédéric Chopin are a set of four mazurkas posthumously published in 1855.

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Missa in tempore belli

Missa in tempore belli (Mass in Time of War), Hob. XXII/9, is a setting of the mass by Joseph Haydn.

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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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Piano Concerto No. 1 (Beethoven)

Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.

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Piano Concerto No. 21 (Mozart)

The Piano Concerto No.

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Piano Concerto No. 25 (Mozart)

The Piano Concerto No.

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Piano Concerto No. 3 (Prokofiev)

Piano Concerto No.

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Piano Sonata No. 1 (Mozart)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No.

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Piano Sonata No. 10 (Mozart)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No.

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Piano Sonata No. 16 (Mozart)

The Piano Sonata No.

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Piano Sonata No. 21 (Beethoven)

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.

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Piano Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven)

Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.

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Piano Sonata No. 7 (Mozart)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No.

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer.

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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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Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann (8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer and an influential music critic.

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Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (r; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor.

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Sharp (music)

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

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String Quartet No. 19 (Mozart)

The String Quartet No.

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String Quartets, Op. 33 (Haydn)

The Op.

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String Quartets, Op. 76 (Haydn)

The six String Quartets, Op. 76 by Joseph Haydn were composed in 1797 or 1798 and dedicated to the Hungarian count Joseph Georg von ErdődyIn full, Joseph Georg Erasmus Adrian Gabriel Michael Anton Franz von Erdödy.

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String Quintet (Schubert)

Franz Schubert's final chamber work, the String Quintet in C major (D. 956, Op. posth. 163) is sometimes called the "Cello Quintet" because it is scored for a standard string quartet plus an extra cello instead of the extra viola which is more usual in conventional string quintets.

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Symphony in C (Bizet)

The Symphony in C is an early work by the French composer Georges Bizet.

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Symphony in C (Stravinsky)

The Symphony in C is a work by Russian expatriate composer Igor Stravinsky.

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Symphony No. 1 (Beethoven)

Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 16 (Mozart)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 2 (Schumann)

The Symphony in C major by German composer Robert Schumann was published in 1847 as his Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 22 (Mozart)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 28 (Mozart)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 3 (Sibelius)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 34 (Mozart)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 36 (Mozart)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 4 (Prokofiev)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 41 (Mozart)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, on 10 August 1788.

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Symphony No. 6 (Schubert)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 60 (Haydn)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 7 (Haydn)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)

Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105, was the final published symphony of the Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius.

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Symphony No. 82 (Haydn)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 9 (Schubert)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 94 (Haydn)

The Symphony No.

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Te Deum

The Te Deum (also known as Ambrosian Hymn or A Song of the Church) is an early Christian hymn of praise.

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Terry Riley

Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician associated with the minimalist school of Western classical music, of which he was a pioneer.

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The Signature Series

The Signature Series by producer Paolo Pietropaolo (who is host of In Concert on CBC Radio 2) and co-producer Denise Ball is a music program that explores the personality behind the key signatures of music by personifying each of the 24 keys as a person.

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Timpani

Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.

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Toccata (Schumann)

The Toccata in C major, Op. 7 by Robert Schumann, was completed in 1836.

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Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564

Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C major (BWV 564) is an organ composition by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Triple Concerto (Beethoven)

Ludwig van Beethoven's Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, Op.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Twelve Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman"

Twelve Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman", K. 265/300e, is a piano composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composed when he was around 25 years old (1781 or 1782).

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Two rondos for piano (Beethoven)

Ludwig van Beethoven wrote two rondos for solo piano in 1797.

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Wanderer Fantasy

The Fantasie in C major, Op.

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Wedding March (Mendelssohn)

Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" in C major, written in 1842, is one of the best known of the pieces from his suite of incidental music (Op. 61) to Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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References

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

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