A-flat major

American  

[ay flat may-jer] / ˈeɪ ˌflæt ˈmeɪ dʒər /

noun

1. Music. the key that has A flat as the tonic or first note of its scale and is represented by a key signature having four flats.

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Example Sentences

Brahms’ Waltz in A-flat Major was lovingly exquisite.

From Los Angeles Times

So he returned to the stage and started the gentle undulations of the A-flat major étude he had played some 40 minutes earlier — now with even more flowing naturalness.

From New York Times

Gerhaher and the players deliver the listener from these tiny deaths in the final, and longest, song, “Der Einsame,” sustaining its delicately spun lines in pillowy A-flat major and making peace with loneliness.

From New York Times

There is, for instance, the crystalline near-silence in the slow movement of Beethoven’s Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, the glittering wonders in the ironically ornamental slow movement of his Sonata No. 16 in G Major, and the whirlwind wonders in the first movement of Schubert’s Sonata No. 16 in A Minor.

From The New Yorker

A subtler figure, associated with Catholic ritual, is a harmonic progression that combines a tonic chord with a triad on the flattened sixth degree: say, A-flat major against E major.

From The New Yorker