Key signature key signatures showing sharps or flats on both octaves for notes which fall within the staff. An accidental is an exception to the key signature, applying only to the measure and octave in which it appears. Although a key signature may be written using any combination of sharp and flat symbols, the most common series of thirteen homogeneous key signatures—ranging from six flats to six sharps, with each successive flat or sharp placed on the note a perfect fifth below or above, respectively, the previous one—is assumed in much of this article. A piece scored using a single diatonic key
A Key to the Suite his flight home, Hubbard dreams of Cory pulling his heart from his chest, and despite his protestations to the contrary, he knows he has already lost it. A Key to the Suite A Key to the Suite is a novel by American author John D. MacDonald first published in 1962 by Fawcett Publications. The third-person, subjective narrative is about a business executive, Floyd Hubbard, in attendance at a meeting in order to help the company determine the future employment of Jesse Mulaney, upper management in the sales department. During the course of the novel, Hubbard moves from reluctant hatchet man