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C major is a major scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. C major is one of the most common keys used in music. Its key signature has no flats or sharps. Its relative minor is A minor and its parallel minor is C minor.
The C major scale is:
On the piano, the C major scale can be played by playing only the white keys starting on C.
Scale degree chords
The scale degree chords of C major are:
Tonic – C major
Supertonic – D minor
Mediant – E minor
Subdominant – F major
Dominant – G major
Submediant – A minor
Leading-tone – B diminished
Compositions
Twenty of Joseph Haydn's 106 symphonies are in C major, making it his second most-used key, second to D major. Of the 134 symphonies mistakenly attributed to Haydn that H. C. Robbins Landon lists in his catalog, 33 are in C major, more than any other key. Before the invention of the valves, Haydn did not write trumpet and timpani parts in his symphonies, except those in C major. Landon writes that it wasn't "until 1774 that Haydn uses trumpets and timpani in a key other than C major... and then only sparingly." Most of Haydn's symphonies in C major are labelled "festive" and are of a primarily celebratory mood. Wilfrid Mellers believed that Mozart's Symphony No. 41, written in 'white' C major, "represented the triumph of light". (See also List of symphonies in C major.)
Many masses and settings of the Te Deum in the Classical era were in C major. Mozart and Haydn wrote most of their masses in C major. Gounod (in a review of Sibelius' Third Symphony) said that "only God composes in C major". Six of his own masses are written in C.
Of Franz Schubert's two symphonies in the key, the first is nicknamed the "Little C major" and the second the "Great C major".
Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" is written in C major.
Many musicians have pointed out that every musical key conjures up specific feelings. This idea is further explored in a radio program called The Signature Series. American popular songwriter Bob Dylan claimed the key of C major to "be the key of strength, but also the key of regret". Sibelius's Symphony No. 7 is in C major and that key was of great importance in his previous symphonies.
= Notable examples
=See also
Key (music)
Major and minor
Chord (music)
Chord notation
References
Further reading
David Wyn Jones, "The Beginning of the Symphony", in A Guide to the Symphony edited by Robert Layton. Oxford University Press.
H. C. Robbins Landon, Haydn Symphonies, BBC Music Guides 1986 [1966] ISBN 9780563205159 OCLC 317594202
External links
Media related to C major at Wikimedia Commons
"Interactive piano and guitar reference to the C major scale", muted.io
"Learn to play C major scale on Guitar with notes and scale position", musicmaster.in
C. major may refer to:
Ceramornis major, an extinct bird species from the Late Cretaceous
Cettia major, the chestnut-crowned bush warbler, a warbler species found in South Asia
Clusia major, the autograph tree or pitch-apple, a plant species
Copiula major, a frog species found in Indonesia and possibly Papua New Guinea
Ctenacanthus major, a prehistoric fish species
See also
Major (disambiguation)
C major – a key in music
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