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Scales and Key Signatures

This category is about major, minor and other musical scales, and keys and key signatures in musical notation. All questions should relate to forms and construction of scales, and key signatures within these forms.

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Where did the clef come from?

The clefs in music scores appears way down in the Medieval period: centuries before the modern notation came into practice. The ancient clefs had no names such as treble clef or bass clef. Some of oldest clefs are F clef and G clef. They had no fixed position in the staff: also known as dynamic clefs. The alto clef and tenor clefs are two positions derived from the ancient C clef.

How many sharps are in the key of B flat major?

There are two flats in the key of B flat major: B flat and E flat.

What is the key signature for F?

The key signature for F major has one flat (B flat) , while the key signature for F minor has four flats (B flat, E flat, A flat, and D flat).

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Which major scale has the most flats?

G-flat major scale has the most with 6 flats: b-flat, e-flat, a-flat, d-flat, g-flat, and c-flat.

Of course, one could argue that other scales have more flats (such as C-flat major, F-flat major, B-double-flat major, etc), but these scales are typically notated as their enharmonic equivalent (e.g. A major instead of B-double-flat major).

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What is the key signature of e flat major in the bass clef?

The key signatures are the same in both clefts, but the flats are placed in different locations since the notes themselves are found in different places.

The key of Eb major has three flats: Bb, Eb, and Ab.

What is the key signature of a major in the bass clef?

Any scale will have the same key signature in both the bass and treble clef. For A major, the key signature consists of F#, C#, and G#.

To write the key signature:

Treble Clef: the sharps correspond to the 1st and 3rd spaces, and the second line [F#, C#, and G#, respectively].

Bass Clef: the sharps correspond to the 2nd and 4th spaces, and the 4th line [C#, G#, and F#, respectively).

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There are a few companies which produce sharps containers. Some of them are single-use and others are reuse-able. A few websites, for example Sharps Containers and Medline, sell those items. It is also possible the hospital has a contract with another company that takes care of the disposal of medical sharps and supplies the containers.

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How many pitches does the chromatic scale have?

The chromatic scale has twelve different pitches on it. These pitches range from A to G sharp (G#) or A flat (Ab). All semitones in the chromatic scale are the same size.

What is a tonic note in a scale?

A tonic note in a scale is the key note a song is played in. The tonic note typically occurs at the end of a verse in a song. It can also occur between the second and third beat of a song as well.

What are diatonic key signatures?

Diatonic key signatures result from the diatonic scales. There are 15 diatonic scales and each of them have a key signature which corresponds to each scale. There is a circle of fifths which shows the system on how to come across each and every diatonic key signature and scale.

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What is the leading tone in a db major scale?

The leading tone is the seventh note in the scale. For D-flat major, this would be C.

Which major has 1 sharp?

The G-major scale has only one sharp (which is F#)

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What is G major transposed down a major 2nd?

E

A major second is equivalent to a whole note, or two semitones, and two semitones down from G-flat (which is enharmonically equivalent to F-sharp) is E, although it might be written as F-flat depending on the key signature.

F-flat, E to G-flat would be a diminished 3rd, not a major second..