Definitions
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- noun music A
tone intermediate between D and E, denoted E♭. - noun music A key or other mechanism for producing an E-flat.
- noun music The key of
E-flat major .
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Examples
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Robert Schumann, born just one hundred years before Samuel Barber, was featured in his Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, a complex work of big-boned, symphonic dimensions with thick sonorities.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010
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Robert Schumann, born just one hundred years before Samuel Barber, was featured in his Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, a complex work of big-boned, symphonic dimensions with thick sonorities.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010
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"Lines to a Movement in Mozart's E-flat Symphony" is a rare, hopeful poem about spring and love from the usually dour Thomas Hardy:
John Lundberg: New York's Subway Replaces Poetry With More Ads John Lundberg 2011
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"Lines to a Movement in Mozart's E-flat Symphony" is a rare, hopeful poem about spring and love from the usually dour Thomas Hardy:
John Lundberg: New York's Subway Replaces Poetry With More Ads John Lundberg 2011
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"Lines to a Movement in Mozart's E-flat Symphony" is a rare, hopeful poem about spring and love from the usually dour Thomas Hardy:
John Lundberg: New York's Subway Replaces Poetry With More Ads John Lundberg 2011
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The symbolic Masonic threesomes of the original (Boys, Ladies, Slaves and Temples) are gone, leaving only the three flats of E-flat major (the opera's tonic key).
A Magical 'Flute' Without the Fanfare Paul Levy 2011
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In the 1955 Presbyterian Hymnbook, most soprano lines top out around E-flat or E, with a few occasionally getting up to F.
Archive 2009-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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In the 1955 Presbyterian Hymnbook, most soprano lines top out around E-flat or E, with a few occasionally getting up to F.
Star Search Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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American Ballet Theatre Through May 26 Mr. Ratmansky's free-flowing work for six couples takes its impetus from Igor Stravinsky's Concerto in E-flat, also known as "Dumbarton Oaks" after the Washington, D.C., residence of the couple who commissioned the composition and hosted its first performance in May 1938.
Not the Usual ABT Fare Robert Greskovic 2011
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"Lines to a Movement in Mozart's E-flat Symphony" is a rare, hopeful poem about spring and love from the usually dour Thomas Hardy:
John Lundberg: New York's Subway Replaces Poetry With More Ads John Lundberg 2011
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