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| | image_name=A-major f-sharp-minor.svg
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| | relative=[[F-sharp minor|F{{music|sharp}} minor]]
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| | parallel=[[A minor]]
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| | dominant=[[E major]]
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| | subdominant=[[D major]]
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| | first_pitch=A
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| | second_pitch=B
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| | third_pitch=C{{music|sharp}}
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| | fourth_pitch=D
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| | fifth_pitch=E
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| | sixth_pitch=F{{music|sharp}}
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| | seventh_pitch=G{{music|sharp}}
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| '''A major''' (or the '''key of A''') is a [[major scale]] based on A, with the pitches [[A (musical note)|A]], [[B (musical note)|B]], [[C♯ (musical note)|C{{music|sharp}}]], [[D (musical note)|D]], [[E (musical note)|E]], [[F♯ (musical note)|F{{music|sharp}}]], and [[G♯ (musical note)|G{{music|sharp}}]]. Its [[key signature]] has three sharps.
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| Its [[relative key|relative minor]] is [[F-sharp minor]] and its [[parallel key|parallel minor]] is [[A minor]]. The key of A major is the only key where a [[Neapolitan sixth]] chord on <math>\hat2</math> requires both a flat and a natural accidental.
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| In the treble, alto, and bass clefs, the G{{music|sharp}} in the key signature is placed higher than C{{music|sharp}}. However, in the tenor clef, it would require a [[ledger line]] and so G{{music|sharp}} is placed lower than C{{music|sharp}}.
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| Although not as rare in the symphonic literature as sharper keys, examples of symphonies in A major are not as numerous as for [[D major]] or [[G major]]. [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]'s [[Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 7]], [[Anton Bruckner|Bruckner]]'s [[Symphony No. 6 (Bruckner)|Symphony No. 6]] and [[Felix Mendelssohn|Mendelssohn]]'s [[Symphony No. 4 (Mendelssohn)|Symphony No. 4]] comprise a nearly complete list of symphonies in this key in the Romantic era. [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]'s [[Clarinet Concerto (Mozart)|Clarinet Concerto]] and [[Clarinet Quintet (Mozart)|Clarinet Quintet]] are both in A major, and generally Mozart was more likely to use clarinets in A major than in any other key besides [[E-flat major]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Mark Anson-Cartwright, "Chromatic Features of E{{music|♭}}-Major Works of the Classical Period|journal=Music Theory Spectrum|volume=22|issue= 2 |year=2000|page= 178|jstor=745959}}</ref>
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| A major is often thought of as the simplest key for violin and other orchestra instruments and beginning violin students' first pieces are usually simple ones in this key.{{Citation needed|date=January 2014}}
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| A major occurs frequently in chamber music. [[Franz Schubert]]'s Piano Quintet known as the [[Trout Quintet]] and [[Antonín Dvořák]]'s [[Piano Quintet No. 2 (Dvořák)|Piano Quintet No. 2]] are both in A major. [[Johannes Brahms]], [[César Franck]], and [[Gabriel Fauré]] wrote violin sonatas in A major. In connection to Beethoven's [[Violin Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven)|Kreutzer Sonata]], Peter Cropper said that A major "is the fullest sounding key for the violin."<ref>Peter Cropper "Beethoven's Violin Sonata in A major, Op.47 'Kreutzer': First Movement" ''The Strad'' March 2009, p. 64</ref>
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| According to [[Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart]], A major is a key suitable for "declarations of innocent love, ... hope of seeing one's beloved again when parting; youthful cheerfulness and trust in God."<ref>Rita Steblin (1996) ''A History of Key Characteristics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries'', University of Rochester Press, p. 123, ISBN 0835714187.</ref>
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| [[Image:A Major Scale.PNG|thumb|330px| Ascending and descending '''A major''' scale {{audio|A-natural major.mid|Play in just intonation}}.]]
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| For orchestral works in A major, the timpani are typically set to A and E a fifth apart, rather than a fourth apart as for most other keys. [[Hector Berlioz]] complained about the custom of his day in which timpani tuned to A and E a fifth apart were notated C and G a fourth apart, a custom which survived as late as the music of [[Franz Berwald]].<ref>N. D. Mar (1981). ''Anatomy of the Orchestra'' University of California Press, p. 349, ISBN 0520045009.</ref>
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| ==References==
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| {{reflist}}
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| ==Further reading==
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| * Colin Lawson, ''Mozart: Clarinet Concerto'', A Cambridge Music Handbook, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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| ==Scales and keys==
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| {{Circle of fifths}}
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| {{commons}}
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| [[Category:Musical keys]]
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| [[Category:Major scales]]
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| [[Category:Compositions in A major| ]]
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