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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E-flat major

And with a sparkling arpeggio, we find ourselves suddenly in E-flat major, squinting in the sunlight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

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 Allen Wilson Porterfield

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