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Contents. Music written in all major or minor keys. The title page of the first book of J.S. Bach 's The Well-Tempered Clavier, which covers all 24 major and minor keys. There is a long tradition in classical music of writing music in sets of pieces that cover all the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale.
Major/minor compositions are musical compositions that begin in a major key and end in a minor key (generally the parallel minor), specifying the keynote (as C major/minor). This is a very unusual form in tonal music, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] although examples became more common in the nineteenth century. [ 3 ]
The first movement is written in sonata form and is in the key of C major.The familiar opening theme is accompanied by an Alberti bass, played in the left hand.. A bridge passage composed of scales follows, arriving at a cadence in G major, the key in which the second theme is then played.
Title page of Beethoven's symphonies from the Gesamtausgabe. The list of compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven consists of 722 works [1] written over forty-five years, from his earliest work in 1782 (variations for piano on a march by Ernst Christoph Dressler) when he was only eleven years old and still in Bonn, until his last work just before his death in Vienna in 1827.
The following works are some of the most universally respected and established cornerstones of the band repertoire. All have "stood the test of time" through decades of regular performance, and many, either through an innovative use of the medium or by the fame of their composer, helped establish the wind band as a legitimate, serious performing ensemble.
Manhattan School of Music. Mannes College of Music. Marist College. New York University, Steinhardt School. New York University, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Roberts Wesleyan University. Syracuse University Setnor School of Music. The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. City College of New York.
Pages in category "Compositions covering all major and/or minor keys" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Actually, his brother Michael Haydn had written one such symphony earlier, No. 36. However, Joseph 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), a procedure that made sense since he limited that instrument to the tonic and dominant pitches. [6]