Flat key signatures. If you follow the same ‘cycle of 5ths’ rationale and count downwards by five notes, you reel off the flat keys. ... For example, C major (with no key signature) is relative to A ...

The number of sharps in a key signature increases, as we move through what is known as ‘the cycle of 5ths'. Count up five ...

Our pianist begins his chronological clavier journey in 1722 with Bach’s prelude in C major (funny that). From there, we tour Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Louise Farrenc, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and many ...

The major key and the minor key, which will begin on a different note. This is known as the relative minor. So G major, for example has a key signature of one sharp, but this is also the key ...