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Also known as A-major

tonality

Key facts

Relative key
F-sharp minor
Parallel key
A minor
Dominant key
E major
Subdominant key
D major

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Encyclopedic overview

A major is a major scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, C♯, D, E, F♯, and G♯. Its key signature has three sharps. Its relative minor is F-sharp minor and its parallel minor is A minor.

The A major scale is:

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “A major” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.