Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony in B minor ends in B major. The "Tuileries" movement from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is in the key. The second movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. Brahms also wrote the slow movement to his Second Symphony in B major, as well as the fourth and last piece of the Ballades, Op. 8, is in B major, though the piece ends in B minor. The aria " La donna è mobile" from Verdi's opera Rigoletto is in the key, as is the " Flower Duet" from Lakmé. The melody has some challenging leaps in it and so it is worth paying particular attention to the fingering I have suggested. This is a challenging key for a beginner piano player and so I have kept the left hand very simple. įew large-scale works in B major exist: these include Haydn's Symphony No. This easy piano version of Silent Night is in the key of B flat major (2 flats B flat and E flat).
You can download the audio file.Īlthough B major is usually considered a remote key (due to its distance from C major in the circle of fifths and fairly large number of sharps), Frédéric Chopin regarded its scale as the easiest of all to play on the piano, as its black notes fit the natural positions of the fingers well as a consequence he often assigned it first to beginning piano students, leaving the scale of C major until last because he considered it the hardest of all scales to play completely evenly (because of its complete lack of black notes). Audio playback is not supported in your browser. Learn how to play the B flat major chord on piano and keyboard with left and right hand, in root position, first and second inversion.
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