E major

American  

[ee may-jer] / ˈi ˈmeɪ dʒər /

noun

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

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E major

Strauss builds these opposing tensions right into the architecture of her character: His “Elektra chord” — a dissonant stacking of E major and C-sharp major — is the sound of a woman tearing in two.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2022

A subtler figure, associated with Catholic ritual, is a harmonic progression that combines a tonic chord with a triad on the flattened sixth degree: say, A-flat major against E major.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018

It reverberated in my young mind like the E major chord that ends the Beatle’s “A Day in the Life.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2015

There had already been an extraordinary foretaste of the final recital when Schiff played the whole of the E major sonata Op 109 as an encore after the Hammerklavier.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2013

NOTE: Notice that IV in the key of B flat is an E flat major chord, not an E major chord, and vii in the key of G is F sharp diminished, not F diminished.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones