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{{Infobox Scale
|  image_name=F-major_d-minor.svg
|  scale_name=F major
|  relative=[[D minor]]
|  parallel=[[F minor]]
|  first_pitch=F
|  second_pitch=G
|  third_pitch=A
|  fourth_pitch=B{{Music|flat}}
|  fifth_pitch=C
|  sixth_pitch=D
|  seventh_pitch=E
}}
'''F major''' (or the '''key of F''') is a [[music]]al [[major scale]] starting on F. Its [[key signature]] has one flat.

Its [[relative key|relative minor]] is [[D minor]] and its [[parallel minor]] is [[F minor]].

F major is the home key of the [[English horn]], the [[basset horn]], the [[horn (instrument)|horn]] in F, the [[trumpet]] in F and the bass [[Wagner tuba]]. This means that if you want these instruments to sound in F major, you have to write in [[C major]]. Most of these sound a [[perfect fift]]h lower than written, except the trumpet in F which sounds a [[perfect fourth]] higher. (The basset horn also often sounds an [[octave]] and a fifth lower.)


Of the six Overtures [[Francesco Maria Veracini]] wrote for [[Augustus III of Poland|Prince Friedrich Augustus]] in Dresden, most are in either F major or [[B-flat major]] because the prince's orchestra had a lot of wind instruments that played best in these keys.

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==List of compositions in F Major==
* [[Brandenburg concertos|Brandenburg Concertos Nos 1 & 2]] - [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]
* [[Piano Concerto No. 19 (Mozart)|Piano Concerto No. 19]] - [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]
* [[Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral"]] - [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]
* [[Symphony No. 3 (Brahms)|Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90]] - [[Johannes Brahms]]
* [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)]] - [[Dimitri Shostakovich]]
* [[The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)|Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293, "L'autunno"]] - [[Antonio Vivaldi]]

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