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Thanks to the CBC and Paolo Pietropaolo for hosting the CBC Signature Series. The key de jour is D flat major.
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.




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