F major
Major key and scale based on the note F
F major is a major scale based on F, with the pitches F, G, A, B♭, C, D, and E. Its key signature has one flat. Its relative minor is D minor and its parallel minor is F minor.
The F major scale is:
Audio playback is not supported in your browser. You can download the audio file.Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary. The F harmonic major and melodic major scales are:
Audio playback is not supported in your browser. You can download the audio file. Audio playback is not supported in your browser. You can download the audio file.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. These instruments sound a perfect fifth lower than written, with the exception of the trumpet in F which sounds a fourth higher.
01Scale degree chords
The scale degree chords of F major are:
02Notable compositions in F major
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Trio sonata Op. 1/5 for two violins and basso continuo, RV 69
- Violin sonata Op. 2/4, RV 20
- Violin sonata Op. 5/1, RV 18
- Violin concerto Op. 3/7 from L'estro armonico, for four violins and orchestra, RV 567
- Violin concerto Op. 4/9 from La Stravaganza, RV 284
- Violin concerto Op. 7/10, Il Ritiro, RV 294
- Violin concerto Op. 8/3, Autumn from The four seasons, RV 293
- Flute concerto Op. 10/1, RV 433, La tempesta di mare
- Flute concerto Op. 10/5, RV 434
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- English Suite No. 4, BWV 809
- Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971
- Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, BWV 1046-1047
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Concerto for 3 Pianos, K. 242
- Piano Concerto No. 11, K. 413
- Piano Concerto No. 19, K. 459
- Piano Sonata No. 12, K. 332/300k
- String Quartet No. 23, K. 590
- Violin Sonata No. 24, K. 376
- Violin Sonata No. 36, K. 547
- Oboe Quartet, K. 370/368b
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 ("Pastoral")
- Symphony No. 8, Op. 93
- Romance No. 2 for violin and orchestra, Op. 50
- String Quartet No. 1, Op. 18/1
- String Quartet No. 7, Op. 59/1
- String Quartet No. 16, Op. 135
- Violin Sonata No. 5, Op. 24 (Frühling)
- Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 10/2
- Piano Sonata No. 22, Op. 54
- Horn Sonata, Op. 17
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Franz Schubert
- Octet, D. 803
- Mass No. 1, D. 105
- Deutsche Messe (German Mass), D 872
- Adagio and Rondo Concertante for piano quartet, D. 487
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Franz Liszt
- Transcendental Étude No. 3 "Paysage"
- Frédéric Chopin
- Charles-Valentin Alkan
- Johannes Brahms
- Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
- String Quintet No. 1, Op. 88
- Symphony No. 3, Op. 90
- Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 99
- Anton Bruckner
- Maurice Ravel
- George Gershwin
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- String Quartet No. 3, Op. 73
- Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 102
- Antonín Dvořák
- Symphony No. 5, Op. 76
- String Quartet No. 12 (American Quartet), Op. 96
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