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E-flat major

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[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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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

Conductor Peter Maag's rather specialized preference is for the key of E-flat major.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the voice died away in a solemn E-flat major chord, and everything was as if sunk in the bottom of the sea.

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson

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