E-flat major
Americannoun
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He was suddenly the Wynton Marsalis of his medium: He could swing, and he could play the Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
As “Harmonielehre” nears its end, the musical narrative emerges from cloudy ambiguity onto a sun-drenched field of E-flat major.
From Washington Post • May 16, 2016
"Those E-flat major chords get the reader awake."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Conductor Peter Maag's rather specialized preference is for the key of E-flat major.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A minor in relation to C major, C minor to E-flat major.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
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