- A-flat minor
Infobox Scale
scale_name=Amusic|flat minor
relative=Cb major
parallel=Amusic|flat major
enharmonic=Gmusic|sharp minor
first_pitch=Amusic|flat
second_pitch=Bmusic|flat
third_pitch=Cmusic|flat
fourth_pitch=Dmusic|flat
fifth_pitch=Emusic|flat
sixth_pitch=Fmusic|flat
seventh_pitch=Gmusic|flat: "Also see:A-flat major , orA minor ." A-flat minor is aminor scale based on A-flat, consisting of the pitches Amusic|flat, Bmusic|flat, Cmusic|flat, Dmusic|flat, Emusic|flat, Fmusic|flat, and Gmusic|flat. For the harmonic minor, the Gmusic|flat is raised to Gmusic|natural. Itskey signature has seven flats ("see below:" Scales and keys).Its relative major is
C-flat major (or, enharmonically,B major ), and its parallel major isA-flat major . Its enharmonic equivalent isG-sharp minor .Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary.
Although A-flat minor occurs in modulation in works in other keys, it is seldom used as the principal key of a piece of music. However,
Leoš Janáček uses it for his violin sonata and the organ solo of hisGlagolitic Mass , and in Frederic Loewe's score to the1956 musical playMy Fair Lady , the Second Servants' Chorus is set in A-flat minor (the preceding and following choruses being a semitone lower and higher respectively). Instead, pieces in a minor mode that have A flat's pitch as tonic are nearly always notated in itsenharmonic key,G-sharp minor , because of Gmusic|sharp's appreciably simpler key signature. As a result, only works expressly notated as such may reasonably be considered to be in A-flat minor.One notable piece of popular music in A-flat minor is
Walkin' on the Sun bySmash Mouth .In some scores, the A♭ minor key signature in the bass clef is written with the flat for the F on the second line from the top.
cales and keys
External links
* [http://www.cisdur.de/e_index.html Overview of Compositions with 7 Accidentals]
References
* [http://www.gressus.se/chopin/works/index.html List of Chopin's works sorted by opus] .
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