E MAJOR

: ''Also see: E minor, or E flat major.''
'E major' is a major scale based on E, with the pitches E, F-sharp, G-sharp, A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp and E. Its key signature has four sharps (''see below:'' Scales and keys).
Its relative minor is C-sharp minor, and its parallel minor is E minor.
Only two of Haydn's 104 symphonies are in E major, No. 12 and No. 29. Even in the 19th Century, symphonies in this key were rare, with Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 being one of very few examples. "The key of E major is frequently associated with music of contemplation."^[1]
Two symphonies that begin in D minor and end in E major are Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony and Nielsen's Symphony No. 4 in D minor.

Also, E major is the key for the final movements of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 and Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10.
Johann Sebastian Bach composed a violin concerto in this key, Violin Concerto in E major.
Though it is a difficult key for wind instruments, it is acceptable for orchestral strings, and quite suitable for the guitar. If available, clarinets in A should be used instead of clarinets in B-flat; the A clarinets would be written in G major, while the B-flats would be written in F-sharp or G-flat major.
The bells of Big Ben (the Westminster Quarters) are tuned to the key of E Major (the notes E, B, G-sharp and F-sharp).

Contents

Well-known contemporary music in this key

References

External links

Well-known contemporary music in this key

★ ''99 Luftballoons'' - Nena

★ ''All I Have to Do is Dream'' - Everly Brothers

★ ''All My Loving'' - The Beatles

★ ''Back in Black'' - AC/DC

★ ''Black Or White'' - Michael Jackson

★ ''Candle In The Wind'' - Elton John

★ ''Cry'' - Godley and Creme

★ ''Day Tripper'' - The Beatles

★ ''Devoted To You'' - Everly Brothers

★ ''Do Wah Diddy Diddy'' - Manfred Mann

★ ''Don't Think Twice, It's All Right'' - Bob Dylan

★ ''Exciteable Boy'' - Warren Zevon

★ ''Folsom Prison Blues'' - Johnny Cash

★ ''Got My Mind Set On You'' - George Harrison

★ ''Hampster Dance''

★ ''Heart of Glass'' - Blondie

★ ''Heaven is a Place on Earth'' - Belinda Carlisle

★ ''Hip To Be Square'' - Huey Lewis and the News

★ ''I Can See for Miles'' - The Who (also in A major)

★ ''I'm on Fire'' - Bruce Springsteen

★ ''I'm Too Sexy'' - Right Said Fred

★ ''(I've Had) The Time of My Life'' - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes

★ ''Just What I Needed'' - The Cars

★ ''Lovely Day'' - Bill Withers

★ '' - Dream Theater

★ ''Please Please Me'' - The Beatles

★ ''Real Wild Child'' - Iggy Pop

★ ''Rikki Don't Lose That Number'' - Steely Dan

★ ''Rocky Mountain High'' - John Denver

★ ''Rush Hour'' - Jane Wiedlin

★ ''Simply Irresistible'' - Robert Palmer

★ '' - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

★ ''The Impression That I Get'' - Mighty Mighty Bosstones

★ ''This Is Your Life'' - Switchfoot

★ ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' theme

★ ''The Twist'' - Chubby Checker

★ ''Trapped in the Closet'' - R. Kelly

★ ''Vertigo'' - U2

★ ''Wake Up'' - Hilary Duff

★ ''Walk Of Life'' - Dire Straits

★ ''Where'd You Go'' - Fort Minor

★ ''Who Can It Be Now?'' - Men at Work

★ ''Yellow Ledbetter'' - Pearl Jam

References

1. Philip Barford, ''Bruckner Symphonies'' Seattle: University of Washington Press (1978): 52

External links

★ E Major - Free E Major Scale Print Out with Arpeggios and Broken Chords for Piano with Fingering