Key signature sometimes called "standard key signatures". Other scales are written either with a standard key signature and use accidental as required, or with a nonstandard key signature. Examples of the latter include the E (right hand), and F and G (left hand) used for the E diminished (E octatonic) scale in Bartók's "Crossed Hands" (no. 99, vol. 4, "Mikrokosmos"), or the B, E and F used for the D Phrygian dominant scale in Frederic Rzewski's "God to a Hungry Child". The absence of a key signature does not always mean that the music is in the key of C major /
Key signature names and translations is invariably assumed to be major. In the German notation scheme, a hyphen is added between the pitch and the alteration ("D-Dur"). Minor key signatures are written with a lower case letter ("d-Moll"). For example, to describe Bach's Mass in B minor one could use: Key signature names and translations When a musical key or key signature is referred to in a language other than English, that language may use the usual notation used in English (namely the letters A to G, along with translations of the words "sharp", "flat", "major" and "minor" in that language): languages which use the