E-flat major

American  

[ee flat may-jer] / ˈi ˌflæt ˈmeɪ dʒər /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

Then, musicians Michelle Rockwood and Tonya Harris will perform a special arrangement of Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat Major, followed by more selections.

From Seattle Times

It’s hard to imagine that the Austrian pianist and writer Ernst Pauer had anything but Beethoven’s Third in mind when, in his 1877 taxonomy of musical keys “The Elements of the Beautiful in Music” he characterized E-flat major as “the key which boasts the greatest variety of expression.”

From Washington Post

“We have talked about it being in the tradition of Joseph Haydn’s monumental E-flat Major sonata,” Ms. Namekawa wrote in an email, “written late in his life, after he had abandoned the symphony.”

From New York Times

A tiny pause in the first movement of Beethoven’s youthful Sonata No. 4 in E-Flat Major is a thunderstruck abyss.

From The New Yorker