F major

Updated on Nov 09, 2023

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Relative key D minor Dominant key C major		Parallel key F minor Subdominant B♭ major

F major (or the key of F) is a major scale based on F, with the pitches F, G, A, B♭, C, D, and E. Its key signature has one flat, B♭.

F major's relative minor is D minor, and its parallel minor is F minor.

F major is the home key of the English horn, the basset horn, the horn in F, the trumpet in F and the bass Wagner tuba. Thus, music in F major for these transposing instruments is written in C major. Most of these sound a perfect fifth lower than written, with the exception of the trumpet in F which sounds a fourth higher. (The basset horn also often sounds an octave and a fifth lower.)

Notable compositions in F major

"Autumn" from The Four Seasons (RV 293) – Antonio Vivaldi

Brandenburg Concertos Nos 1 & 2, BWV 1046–1047 – Johann Sebastian Bach

Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 – Johann Sebastian Bach

Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K. 459 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major, K. 332/300k – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Se vuol ballare (An aria from The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

String Quartet No. 23 in F major, K. 590 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Oboe Quartet in F major, K. 370/368b – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, "Pastoral" – Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 – Ludwig van Beethoven

String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18/1 – Ludwig van Beethoven

String Quartet No. 7 in F major, Op. 59/1 – Ludwig van Beethoven

String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135 – Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10/2 – Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major, Op. 54 – Ludwig van Beethoven

Andante favori, WoO 57 – Ludwig van Beethoven

Octet in F major, D. 803 - Franz Schubert

Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 – Johannes Brahms

Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 – Johannes Brahms

String Quintet No. 1 in F major, Op. 88 – Johannes Brahms

Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99 – Johannes Brahms

Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102 – Dmitri Shostakovich

String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73 – Dmitri Shostakovich

String Quartet in F major - Maurice Ravel

Concerto in F – George Gershwin

References

F major Wikipedia

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