G MAJOR

: ''Also see: G minor, or G-sharp minor.''
'G major' (or the 'key of G') is a major scale based on G, with the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, F-sharp and G. Its key signature has one sharp, F (''see below:'' Scales and keys).
Its relative minor is E minor, and its parallel minor is G minor.
In the treble clef, the sharp-symbol for F is usually placed on the first line from the top, though in some Baroque music it is placed on the first space from the bottom (a lower-octave F note).
In the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, "G major is often a key of 6/8 chain rhythms," according to Alfred Einstein, and in the Baroque era, G major was regarded as the "key of benediction."

Of Domenico Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas, 69 are in G major, and 12 of Joseph Haydn's 104 Symphonies are in G major. Beethoven, on the other hand, hardly used G major as the main key of a work, his only major orchestral work in the key being his Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major.
For orchestral works in G major, the timpani are typically set to G and D a fifth apart, rather than a fourth apart as for most other keys.
G is one of the most frequently-employed keys across classical and popular music. This is in part because of its relative ease of playing on both keyboard and string instruments.

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Well-known classical compositions in this key

Well-known contemporary music in this key

Reference

External links

Well-known classical compositions in this key

★ ''Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'' - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

★ "Dalla Sua Pace" (from Don Giovanni) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

★ Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - Johann Sebastian Bach

★ ''Goldberg Variations'' - Johann Sebastian Bach

★ Trepak - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
See also List of symphonies in G major.

Well-known contemporary music in this key

★ ''100 Years'' - Five for Fighting

★ ''All You Need Is Love'' - The Beatles

★ ''American Pie'' - Don McLean

★ ''Brown Eyed Girl'' - Van Morrison

★ ''Closing Time'' - Semisonic

★ ''Creep'' - Radiohead

★ ''Don't Let's Start'' - They Might Be Giants

★ ''Free Bird'' - Lynyrd Skynyrd

★ ''Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)'' - Green Day

★ ''Grace Kelly (song)'' - Mika

★ ''Hard Day's Night'' - The Beatles

★ ''Hey Ya!'' - Outkast

★ ''I Want to Hold Your Hand'' - The Beatles

★ ''Live and Let Die'' - Paul McCartney & Wings

★ ''Lyin' Eyes'' - The Eagles

★ ''More Today Than Yesterday'' - Spiral Starecase

★ ''My Sharona'' - The Knack

★ ''It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)'' - R.E.M.

★ ''The Sign'' - Ace of Base

★ ''Sitting on the Dock of the Bay'' - Otis Redding

★ ''The Way It Is'' - Bruce Hornsby and the Range

★ ''Think for Yourself'' - The Beatles

★ ''Wish You Were Here'' - Pink Floyd

★ ''Wake Me Up When September Ends'' - Green Day

★ ''Yakety Yak'' - The Coasters

★ ''You Shook Me All Night Long'' - AC/DC

★ ''You Make Me Feel Brand New'' - The Stylistics (first half of each verse is in E major with the rest of the song in G major)

Reference

★ Alfred Einstein, ''Mozart, His Character, His Work'', Chapter 10, "Mozart's Choice Of Keys"

External links

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