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Its <a href="/wiki/Key_signature" title="Key signature">key signature</a> has one <a href="/wiki/Sharp_(music)" title="Sharp (music)">sharp</a>. Its <a href="/wiki/Relative_key" title="Relative key">relative minor</a> is <a href="/wiki/E_minor" title="E minor">E minor</a> and its <a href="/wiki/Parallel_key" title="Parallel key">parallel minor</a> is <a href="/wiki/G_minor" title="G minor">G minor</a>. </p><p>The G major scale is: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r996643573">.mw-parser-output .block-indent{padding-left:3em;padding-right:0;overflow:hidden}</style><div class="block-indent"><div class="mw-ext-score noresize" data-midi="//upload.wikimedia.org/score/h/e/hejhic6uu90xxxpn2rgws2vm032dxgc/hejhic6u.midi"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/score/h/e/hejhic6uu90xxxpn2rgws2vm032dxgc/hejhic6u.png" width="395" height="72" alt="
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You can <a href="//upload.wikimedia.org/score/h/e/hejhic6uu90xxxpn2rgws2vm032dxgc/hejhic6u.mp3">download the audio file</a>.</div></audio></div></div></div> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scale_degree_chords">Scale degree chords</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=G_major&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Scale degree chords"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Scale_degree" class="mw-redirect" title="Scale degree">scale degree</a> chords of G major are: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tonic_(music)" title="Tonic (music)">Tonic</a> – G major</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supertonic" title="Supertonic">Supertonic</a> – <a href="/wiki/A_minor" title="A minor">A minor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mediant" title="Mediant">Mediant</a> – <a href="/wiki/B_minor" title="B minor">B minor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subdominant" title="Subdominant">Subdominant</a> – <a href="/wiki/C_major" title="C major">C major</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominant_(music)" title="Dominant (music)">Dominant</a> – <a href="/wiki/D_major" title="D major">D major</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Submediant" title="Submediant">Submediant</a> – <a href="/wiki/E_minor" title="E minor">E minor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leading-tone" class="mw-redirect" title="Leading-tone">Leading-tone</a> – <a href="/wiki/Diminished_triad" title="Diminished triad">F-sharp diminished</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_compositions">Notable compositions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=G_major&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Notable compositions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_symphonies_in_G_major" title="List of symphonies in G major">List of symphonies in G major</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Baroque_period">Baroque period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=G_major&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Baroque period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Baroque_music" title="Baroque music">Baroque music</a>, G major was regarded as the "key of <a href="/wiki/Benediction" title="Benediction">benediction</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Of <a href="/wiki/Domenico_Scarlatti" title="Domenico Scarlatti">Domenico Scarlatti</a>'s 555 keyboard sonatas, G major is the home key for 69, or about 12.4%, sonatas. </p><p>In the music of <a href="/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach" title="Johann Sebastian Bach">Johann Sebastian Bach</a>, "G major is often a key of <span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="serif-fonts" style="font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Times, 'Times New Roman', FreeSerif, 'DejaVu Math TeX', 'URW Bookman L', serif;"><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:0.85em;font-size:80%;text-align:center"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b>6</b></sup><br /><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b>8</b></sub></span></span></span></span> chain rhythms", according to <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Einstein" title="Alfred Einstein">Alfred Einstein</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although Bach also used the key for some <span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="serif-fonts" style="font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Times, 'Times New Roman', FreeSerif, 'DejaVu Math TeX', 'URW Bookman L', serif;"><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:0.85em;font-size:80%;text-align:center"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b>4</b></sup><br /><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b>4</b></sub></span></span></span></span>-based works, including his <a href="/wiki/Brandenburg_Concertos#Concerto_No._3_in_G_major,_BWV_1048" title="Brandenburg Concertos">third</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brandenburg_Concertos#Concerto_No._4_in_G_major,_BWV_1049" title="Brandenburg Concertos">fourth</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Brandenburg_Concertos" title="Brandenburg Concertos">Brandenburg Concertos</a></i>. Pianist <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Denk" title="Jeremy Denk">Jeremy Denk</a> observes that the <i><a href="/wiki/Goldberg_Variations" title="Goldberg Variations">Goldberg Variations</a></i> are 80 minutes in G major.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Classical_era">Classical era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=G_major&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Classical era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Twelve of <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Haydn" title="Joseph Haydn">Joseph Haydn</a>'s 106 symphonies are in G major. Likewise, one of Haydn's most famous piano trios, <a href="/wiki/Piano_Trio_No._39_(Haydn)" title="Piano Trio No. 39 (Haydn)">No. 39</a> (with the <i>Gypsy Rondo</i>), and one of his last two complete published <a href="/wiki/String_quartet" title="String quartet">string quartets</a> (Op. 77, No. 1), are in G major. </p><p>In addition, G major is the home key of Mozart's <i><a href="/wiki/Eine_kleine_Nachtmusik" title="Eine kleine Nachtmusik">Eine kleine Nachtmusik</a></i>, serving as the tonic for three of its four movements (the only exception being the second movement, titled <i>Romanze</i> which is in the subdominant key of <a href="/wiki/C_major" title="C major">C major</a>). However, almost none of his large-scale works such as his symphonies or concertos are in this key; exceptions are the <a href="/wiki/Violin_Concerto_No._3_(Mozart)" title="Violin Concerto No. 3 (Mozart)">Violin concerto no. 3</a>, <a href="/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._17_(Mozart)" title="Piano Concerto No. 17 (Mozart)">Piano Concerto No. 17</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flute_Concerto_No._1_(Mozart)" title="Flute Concerto No. 1 (Mozart)">Flute Concerto No. 1</a> and his <a href="/wiki/String_Quartet_No._14_(Mozart)" title="String Quartet No. 14 (Mozart)">String Quartet No. 14</a>, along with some examples among his <a href="/wiki/Juvenilia" title="Juvenilia">juvenilia</a>. </p><p>For <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven" title="Ludwig van Beethoven">Ludwig van Beethoven</a>, G major was a key for optimism and cheerful energy.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He regularly used this key, for instance in his Piano Sonatas <a href="/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._10_(Beethoven)" title="Piano Sonata No. 10 (Beethoven)">No. 10</a>, <a href="/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._16_(Beethoven)" title="Piano Sonata No. 16 (Beethoven)">No. 16</a>, <a href="/wiki/Piano_Sonatas_Nos._19_and_20_(Beethoven)" title="Piano Sonatas Nos. 19 and 20 (Beethoven)">No. 20</a> and <a href="/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._25_(Beethoven)" title="Piano Sonata No. 25 (Beethoven)">No. 25</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rondos,_Op._51_(Beethoven)" title="Rondos, Op. 51 (Beethoven)">Rondo for piano, Op. 51</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rage_Over_a_Lost_Penny" title="Rage Over a Lost Penny">Rage Over a Lost Penny</a>, Violin sonatas <a href="/wiki/Violin_Sonata_No._8_(Beethoven)" title="Violin Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)">No. 8</a> and <a href="/wiki/Violin_Sonata_No._10_(Beethoven)" title="Violin Sonata No. 10 (Beethoven)">No. 10</a>, <a href="/wiki/String_Trios,_Op._9_(Beethoven)" title="String Trios, Op. 9 (Beethoven)">String Trio No. 2</a>, <a href="/wiki/String_Quartet_No._2_(Beethoven)" title="String Quartet No. 2 (Beethoven)">String Quartet No. 2</a>, <a href="/wiki/Piano_Trios,_Op._1_(Beethoven)#No._2_in_G_major" title="Piano Trios, Op. 1 (Beethoven)">Piano Trio No. 2</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romance_No._1_(Beethoven)" title="Romance No. 1 (Beethoven)">Romance for violin and orchestra, Op. 40</a> and <a href="/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._4_(Beethoven)" title="Piano Concerto No. 4 (Beethoven)">Piano Concerto No. 4</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Franz_Schubert" title="Franz Schubert">Franz Schubert</a> rarely used the key of G major, although a few important compositions are written in this key, including <a href="/wiki/Mass_No._2_(Schubert)" title="Mass No. 2 (Schubert)">Mass No. 2</a> D 167, <a href="/wiki/String_Quartet_No._15_(Schubert)" title="String Quartet No. 15 (Schubert)">String Quartet No. 15</a> D 887 and <a href="/wiki/Piano_Sonata_in_G_major,_D_894_(Schubert)" title="Piano Sonata in G major, D 894 (Schubert)">Piano Sonata op. 78</a> D 894. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Romantic_era">Romantic era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=G_major&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Romantic era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Romantic composers often used keys distant from G major. Composers like <a href="/wiki/Robert_Schumann" title="Robert Schumann">Robert Schumann</a>, <a href="/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn" title="Felix Mendelssohn">Felix Mendelssohn</a>, <a href="/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Franck" title="César Franck">César Franck</a>, <a href="/wiki/Max_Bruch" title="Max Bruch">Max Bruch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anton_Bruckner" title="Anton Bruckner">Anton Bruckner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Modest_Mussorgsky" title="Modest Mussorgsky">Modest Mussorgsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Borodin" title="Alexander Borodin">Alexander Borodin</a>, <a href="/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Cui" title="César Cui">César Cui</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Rachmaninoff" title="Sergei Rachmaninoff">Sergei Rachmaninoff</a> only used this key in a few small-scale or miscellaneous compositions, or even avoided it completely. Nonetheless, some important Romantic music was written in G major. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Harold_en_Italie" title="Harold en Italie">Harold en Italie</a>, a symphony with a solo viola part by <a href="/wiki/Hector_Berlioz" title="Hector Berlioz">Hector Berlioz</a>, is in G major. <a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin" title="Frédéric Chopin">Frédéric Chopin</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Preludes_(Chopin)" title="Preludes (Chopin)">Prelude Op. 28/3</a>, his <a href="/wiki/Nocturnes,_Op._37_(Chopin)" title="Nocturnes, Op. 37 (Chopin)">Nocturne Op. 37/2</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Mazurkas,_Op._50_(Chopin)" title="Mazurkas, Op. 50 (Chopin)">Mazurka Op. 50/1</a> are in this key as well. </p><p>It is also the key of three major chamber music compositions by <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Brahms" title="Johannes Brahms">Johannes Brahms</a>: <a href="/wiki/String_Sextet_No._2_(Brahms)" title="String Sextet No. 2 (Brahms)">String Sextet No. 2 Op. 36</a>, <a href="/wiki/Violin_Sonata_No._1_(Brahms)" title="Violin Sonata No. 1 (Brahms)">Violin Sonata No. 1 Op. 78</a> and <a href="/wiki/String_Quintet_No._2_(Brahms)" title="String Quintet No. 2 (Brahms)">String Quintet No. 2 Op. 111</a>. <a href="/wiki/Anton%C3%ADn_Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k" title="Antonín Dvořák">Antonín Dvořák</a> wrote four important pieces in G major: <a href="/wiki/String_Quintet_No._2_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k)" title="String Quintet No. 2 (Dvořák)">String Quintet No. 2, Op. 77</a>, <a href="/wiki/Symphony_No._8_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k)" title="Symphony No. 8 (Dvořák)">Symphony No. 8 Op. 88</a>, <a href="/wiki/Violin_Sonatina_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k)" title="Violin Sonatina (Dvořák)">Sonatina for Violin and Piano Op. 100</a>, which he wrote for his children, and <a href="/wiki/String_Quartet_No._13_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k)" title="String Quartet No. 13 (Dvořák)">String Quartet No. 13, Op. 106</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Violin_Sonatas_(Grieg)" title="Violin Sonatas (Grieg)">Violin Sonata No. 2 Op. 13</a> by <a href="/wiki/Edvard_Grieg" title="Edvard Grieg">Edvard Grieg</a> is in G major. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns" title="Camille Saint-Saëns">Camille Saint-Saëns</a> chose G major as the key for his String Quartet No. 2 and his <a href="/wiki/Bassoon_Sonata_(Saint-Sa%C3%ABns)" title="Bassoon Sonata (Saint-Saëns)">Sonata for Bassoon and Piano</a>. <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9" title="Gabriel Fauré">Gabriel Fauré</a> only wrote one major composition in this key: his second Barcarolle for Piano, Op. 41. </p><p>The three major compositions in G major of <a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky" title="Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky">Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky</a> are his <a href="/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._2_(Tchaikovsky)" title="Piano Concerto No. 2 (Tchaikovsky)">Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 44</a> and his orchestral suites <a href="/wiki/Orchestral_Suite_No._3_(Tchaikovsky)" title="Orchestral Suite No. 3 (Tchaikovsky)">No. 3, Op. 55</a> and <a href="/wiki/Orchestral_Suite_No._4_Mozartiana_(Tchaikovsky)" title="Orchestral Suite No. 4 Mozartiana (Tchaikovsky)">No. 4 "Mozartiana" Op. 61</a>. Three Préludes for Piano (<a href="/wiki/24_Preludes,_Op._11_(Scriabin)" title="24 Preludes, Op. 11 (Scriabin)">Op. 11/3</a>, Op. 13/3 and Op. 39/3) by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin" title="Alexander Scriabin">Alexander Scriabin</a> are in G major, as well as the Mazurka for orchestra op. 18, the String Quartet No. 3 Op. 26 and the Oriental Rhapsody for orchestra Op. 29 by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Glazunov" title="Alexander Glazunov">Alexander Glazunov</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-Romantic_and_modern_era">Post-Romantic and modern era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=G_major&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Post-Romantic and modern era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Gustav_Mahler" title="Gustav Mahler">Gustav Mahler</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Mahler)" title="Symphony No. 4 (Mahler)">Symphony No. 4</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Strauss" title="Richard Strauss">Richard Strauss</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Tone_poem" class="mw-redirect" title="Tone poem">tone poem</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Aus_Italien" title="Aus Italien">Aus Italien</a></i> Op. 16, are in G major. </p><p>It's the key for the opening 'Sinfonia' of <a href="/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky" title="Igor Stravinsky">Igor Stravinsky</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Pulcinella_(ballet)" title="Pulcinella (ballet)">Pulcinella</a> suite, and for the <a href="/wiki/Piano_Concerto_in_G_major_(Ravel)" title="Piano Concerto in G major (Ravel)">Piano Concerto</a> for two hands and the <a href="/wiki/Violin_Sonata_No._2_(Ravel)" title="Violin Sonata No. 2 (Ravel)">Violin Sonata No. 2</a> by <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Ravel" title="Maurice Ravel">Maurice Ravel</a>. The fifth sonata of the <a href="/wiki/Six_Sonatas_for_solo_violin_(Ysa%C3%BFe)" title="Six Sonatas for solo violin (Ysaÿe)">Six Sonatas for solo violin</a> by <a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Ysa%C3%BFe" title="Eugène Ysaÿe">Eugène Ysaÿe</a> is also in G major. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev" title="Sergei Prokofiev">Sergei Prokofiev</a> wrote his <a href="/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._5_(Prokofiev)" title="Piano Concerto No. 5 (Prokofiev)">Piano Concerto No. 5 Op. 55</a> in this key, and <a href="/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich" title="Dmitri Shostakovich">Dmitri Shostakovich</a> chose it for his <a href="/wiki/Cello_Concerto_No._2_(Shostakovich)" title="Cello Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)">Cello Concerto No. 2 Op. 126</a> and his <a href="/wiki/String_Quartet_No._6_(Shostakovich)" title="String Quartet No. 6 (Shostakovich)">String Quartet No. 6 Op. 101</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=G_major&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>G major is the key stipulated for the royal anthem of Canada, "<a href="/wiki/God_Save_the_King" title="God Save the King">God Save the King</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The anthem "<a href="/wiki/God_Defend_New_Zealand" title="God Defend New Zealand">God Defend New Zealand</a>" ("Aotearoa") was originally composed by <a href="/wiki/John_Joseph_Woods" title="John Joseph Woods">John Joseph Woods</a> in <a href="/wiki/A-flat_major" title="A-flat major">A-flat major</a>, but after becoming New Zealand's national anthem in 1977, it was rearranged into G major to better suit general and massed singing.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Spotify" title="Spotify">Spotify</a>, G major is the most common key of music on the streaming service (closely followed by C major).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=G_major&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Major_and_minor" title="Major and minor">Major and minor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chord_(music)" title="Chord (music)">Chord (music)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chord_notation" title="Chord notation">Chord notation</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading 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