If D-flat major were a person, who would she be?
Here's how the Signature Series works:
1. Select a musical key.
2. Gather the most famous melodies composed in that key.
3. Mash up.
4. Meet the person behind the key.
To get to know D-flat major, click on the orange play button.
Follow along with the pop-up comments to find out what composition is playing.
D-flat major: The Free Spirit
Also known as:
The Flower Child.
The New Age Mystic.
D-flat majors you might know:
Marianne Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility.
Anne of Green Gables.
Phoebe from Friends.
The notes: D♭ - E♭ - F - G♭- A♭ - B♭ - C - D♭.
Number of flats: five.
Relative minor: B-flat minor.
Enharmonic equivalent: C-sharp major.
What they said about D-flat major in the 19th century:
"The pure chord of D-flat major has only to ring out, and the sensitive soul will see itself, as it were, surrounded by pure luminous spiritual creatures, which perceive it in a shape or apprehend it in a form to which the soul, by virtue of its momentary mood, is attracted most of all." – Gustav Schilling, 1835
More D-flat major listening:
Die Forelle by Franz Schubert.
Hab' mir's gelobt from Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss.
Music in D-flat major's alter-ego, C-sharp major:
Ondine from Gaspard de la nuit by Maurice Ravel.
The Canadian connection:
"Big Bird in a Small Cage" by Patrick Watson.
Editor's note: Historical quote and translation from A History of Key Characteristics in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries, by Rita Steblin, UMI Research Press (1983).
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