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tonality

Key facts

Relative key
C-sharp minor
Parallel key
E minor
Dominant key
B major
Subdominant key
A major

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
major mode
Followed by
C-flat major
Follows
A major
Image
E-major c-sharp-minor.svg
Said to be same as
C-sharp minor
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Commons category
E major
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Encyclopedic overview

E major is a major scale based on E, consisting of the pitches E, F♯, G♯, A, B, C♯, and D♯. Its key signature has four sharps. Its relative minor is C-sharp minor and its parallel minor is E minor. Its enharmonic equivalent, F-flat major, has six flats and the double-flat B, which makes that key less convenient to use.

The E major scale is:

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