F major F major F major (or the key of F) is a major scale based on F, with the pitches F, G, A, B, C, D, and E. Its key signature has one flat: B. Its relative minor is D minor and its parallel minor is F minor. The F major scale is: \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c' { </score> F major is the home key of the English horn, the basset horn, the horn in F, the trumpet in F and the bass Wagner tuba. Thus, music in F major for these transposing instruments is written in C
Pentatonic scale traditions: Examples of its use include Chopin's Etude in G-flat major, op. 10, no. 5, the "Black Key" etude, in the major pentatonic. Musicology commonly classifies pentatonic scales as either "hemitonic" or "anhemitonic". Hemitonic scales contain one or more semitones and anhemitonic scales do not contain semitones. (For example, in Japanese music the anhemitonic "yo" scale is contrasted with the hemitonic "in" scale.) Hemitonic pentatonic scales are also called "ditonic scales", because the largest interval in them is the ditone (e.g., in the scale C–E–F–G–B–C, the interval found between C–E and G–B). This should not be confused with the identical