The piano keyboard below contains the notes of the Eb major scale. Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola, K.This step shows the scale note names that will be used to construct all triad chords that harmonize with those scale notes.Variations on an Original Theme, Variation IX "Nimrod".Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante, Op.
Sextet for Horns and String Quartet, Op.Shostakovich used the E-flat major scale to sarcastically evoke military glory in his Symphony No.
Its strong, yet vulnerable character has led the piece to become a staple at funerals, especially in Great Britain. For him, E-flat major was associated with Freemasonry "E-flat evoked stateliness and an almost religious character." Įdward Elgar wrote his Variation IX "Nimrod" from the Enigma Variations in E-flat major. Į-flat major was the second-flattest key Mozart used in his music. "E-flat was the key Haydn chose most often for quartets, ten times in all, and in every other case he wrote the slow movement in the dominant, B-flat major." Or "when composing church music and operatic music in E-flat major, Haydn often substituted cors anglais for oboes in this period", and also in Symphony No. However, in the Classical period, E-flat major was not limited to solely bombastic brass music. Mahler's vast and heroic Eighth Symphony is in E-flat and his Second Symphony also ends in this key. The heroic theme from the Jupiter movement of Holst's The Planets is in E-flat major. Another notable heroic piece in the key of E-flat major is Richard Strauss's A Hero's Life. Three of Mozart's completed Horn Concertos and Joseph Haydn's Trumpet Concerto are in E-flat major, and so is Anton Bruckner's Fourth Symphony with its prominent horn theme in the first movement. But even before Beethoven, Francesco Galeazzi identified E-flat major as "a heroic key, extremely majestic, grave and serious: in all these features it is superior to that of C."
Beethoven's (hypothetical) 10th Symphony is also in E-flat. His Eroica Symphony, Emperor Concerto and Grand Sonata are all in this key. The key of E-flat major is often associated with bold, heroic music, in part because of Beethoven's usage. Audio playback is not supported in your browser.
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