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C F G C# F# G#: (Re) (Me) (Fa) (So) (La) (Te) 1 2nd 3rd 4 5 6 7 A D E D G7 A# D# D# G#7

The document discusses key signatures and the relationship between major and minor keys. It provides a chart showing the key signatures for major keys and their relative minor keys. It notes that while music in minor keys is often thought to sound sadder, music can sound happy in a minor key or sad in a major key. It prompts the reader to listen to four classical pieces and identify whether they are in a major or minor key to practice distinguishing between the two.

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C F G C# F# G#: (Re) (Me) (Fa) (So) (La) (Te) 1 2nd 3rd 4 5 6 7 A D E D G7 A# D# D# G#7

The document discusses key signatures and the relationship between major and minor keys. It provides a chart showing the key signatures for major keys and their relative minor keys. It notes that while music in minor keys is often thought to sound sadder, music can sound happy in a minor key or sad in a major key. It prompts the reader to listen to four classical pieces and identify whether they are in a major or minor key to practice distinguishing between the two.

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Key Name Chord Families

Key (Doe) (Re) (Me) (Fa) (So) (La) (Te)


Signatures 1st Chord / Relative-Minor 2nd 3rd 4th Chord / Relative-Minor 5th Chord 6th 7th
(Tonic cord) (Sub Dominant) (Doe) (Dominant)
C Am D E F Dm G or G7

C# A#m D# F# D#m G# or G#7

D Bm E F# G Em A or A7

Eb Cm F Ab Fm Bb or Bb7

E C#m F# A F#m B or B7

F Dm G Bb Gm C or C7

F# Ebm G B Abm C# or C#7

G Em A B C Am D or D7

Ab Fm Bb C# Bbm Eb or Eb7
A F#m B D Bm E or E7

Bb Gm C Eb Cm F or F7

B G#m C# E C#m F# or F#7


Major and Minor Keys

Did you notice that every key signature had two different names? Every major key has a relative minor key.

Music written in minor keys are often thought to sound sad or scary. Music written in a major key usually sounds
happier than music in a minor key. But this is not always true.

Music in a minor key can also sound happy and music in a major key can sound sad or scary.

It takes practice to tell if the music you hear is written in a major or minor key. The more you listen to music, the
better you will become at identifying major and minor keys.

Listen to In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg. Is it in a major or minor key?

Listen to Funeral March by Frederic Chopin. Is it in a major or minor key?

Listen to Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream by Mendelssohn. Is it in a major or minor key?

Listen to Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Tchaikovsky. It is in a major or minor key?

All of these pieces began in the minor key.

Did you hear that sometimes the music you just heard changed from the minor to the major key and back to the
minor key? It happened in Scherzo.

Listen to Scherzo again and try to identify the passages in the major key.

Check back a bit later to hear examples of music in major keys.

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