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

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 • Feb. 22, 2024

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 • May 26, 2022

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 • Oct. 15, 2018

It was rather an undulation of the A-flat major chord, here and there thrown aloft by the pedal.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond

The opening theme in A-flat major is in two phrases of five measures each—a favorite rhythm with Brahms—given out by the clarinet over a pizzicato bass in the 'cellos.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond