Major scale
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A major scale is a sequence of musical notes containing a major triad on the tonic.
Major scales beginning with white keys
Circle of fifths
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In music theory, the circle of fifths organizes the twelve pitch classes of the chromatic scale in a cycle of ascending perfect fifths. Since the cycle ascends in the opposite direction by perfect fou
Major scale
…and A♭). The figure below shows all 12 relative major and minor keys, with major keys on the outside and minor keys on the inside arranged around the circle of fifths. The numbers inside the circle show the number of sharps or flats in the key signature, with the sharp keys going clockwise, and the flat keys…
Circle of fifths in Idea grammatikii musikiyskoy (Moscow, 1679)