Minor scale based on the accidentals of the "natural" minor scale, not on those of the harmonic or melodic minor scales. For example, a piece in E minor will have one sharp in its key signature because the E natural minor scale has one sharp (F). Major and minor keys that share the same key signature are "relative" to each other. For instance, F major is the relative major of D minor since both have key signatures with one flat. Since the natural minor scale is built on the 6th degree of the major scale, the tonic of the relative minor is
D-flat major the G pedal in the natural position, whereas there is no double-sharp position in which to put the F pedal for G-sharp major). Hector Berlioz called this key "majestic" in his 1856 "Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration modernes", while having a much different opinion of its enharmonic counterpart. Despite this, when he came to orchestrate Carl Maria von Weber's piano piece "Invitation to the Dance" in 1841, he transposed it from D-flat to D major, to give the strings a more manageable key and to produce a brighter sound. Charles-Marie Widor considered D-flat major to be the best key for