C major

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noun

1. Music.,  the key that has C as the tonic or first note of its scale and is represented by a key signature having no sharps or flats.

Example Sentences

“Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 3 in C major,” he sighed, chuckling at the irony of how being the best bluegrass fiddler brought him back to the classical violin he’d quit.

From New York Times

In a C major chord, for example, that would be any C naturals, E naturals, and G naturals.

From Literature

To humans, consonant music generally sounds pleasant and smooth—think a C major chord—whereas dissonance tends to sound jarring and uncomfortable, such as the score from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.

From Science Magazine

The relentless C major hammering of its finale evoked not triumph or freedom, Gielen wrote, but “affirmation without contradiction, and with it the trampling of any opposition, imperial terror.”

From New York Times

The WTC, as it’s often affectionately abbreviated, is a two-volume set of preludes and fugues written in each of the 24 musical keys, rising two-by-two through each of them, from C major to B minor.

From Washington Post