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F 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.[1] Its relative minor is D minor and its parallel minor is F minor.

The F major scale is:


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.)

– F major

Tonic

G minor

Supertonic

A minor

Mediant

B-flat major

Subdominant

C major

Dominant

D minor

Submediant

E diminished

Leading-tone

Key (music)

Major and minor

Chord (music)

Chord notation

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