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B
♭
major
or
B-flat major
is a
major scale
starting on B-flat. Its
key signature
has two
flats
. It has the pitches of
B♭
,
C
,
D
,
E♭
,
F
,
G
,
A
, and B♭.
Its
relative minor
is
G minor
, and its
parallel minor
is
B
♭
minor
.
B-flat major is the home key of many
wind instruments
, such as
clarinets
,
trumpets
,
saxophones
, and
flutes
in B-flat. This means they can be played the most easily in this key. Because of this, many works for
concert bands
(those you might have played in while you were at school) are written in this key or a closely related one such as
F major
or
E-flat major
.
Haydn
's Symphony No. 98, which had both
trumpet
and
timpani
, is known as the first symphony that anyone had written in that key. Actually, his brother
Michael Haydn
had written one earlier. However, Joseph Haydn still gets credit for writing the timpani part at actual pitch with an
F major
key signature (instead of
transposing
with a
C major
key signature), something that made things easier and made more sense.
[1]
Five of
Mozart
's
piano
concerti
are in B-flat major.
Well-known classical compositions in this key
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change
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change source
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- ↑
H. C. Robbins Landon,
Haydn Symphonies
London: British Broadcasting Corporation (1966): 57
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The table shows the number of sharps or flats in each scale. Minor scales are written in lower case.
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