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. Its relative minor is D minor and its parallel minor is F minor.

The F major scale is: 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 major. Most of these sound a perfect fifth lower than written, with the exception of the trumpet in F which sounds a fourth higher. (The basset horn also often sounds an octave and a fifth lower.)

Scale degree chords

 * Tonic – F major
 * Supertonic – G minor
 * Mediant – A minor
 * Subdominant – B-flat major
 * Dominant – C major
 * Submediant – D minor
 * Leading-tone – E diminished

Notable compositions in F major

 * Antonio Vivaldi
 * Trio sonata Op. 1/5 for two violins and basso continuo, RV 69
 * Violin sonata Op. 2/4, RV 20
 * Violin sonata Op. 5/1, RV 18
 * Violin concerto Op. 3/7 from L'estro armonico, for four violins and orchestra, RV 567
 * Violin concerto Op. 4/9 from La Stravaganza, RV 284
 * Violin concerto Op. 7/10, Il Ritiro, RV 294
 * Violin concerto Op. 8/3, Autumn from The four seasons, RV 293
 * Flute concerto Op. 10/1, RV 433, La tempesta di mare
 * Flute concerto Op. 10/5, RV 434
 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * English Suite No. 4, BWV 809
 * Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971
 * Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, BWV 1046–1047
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Piano Concerto No. 19, K. 459
 * Piano Sonata No. 12, K. 332/300k
 * String Quartet No. 23, K. 590
 * Violin Sonata No. 24, K. 376
 * Violin Sonata No. 36, K. 547
 * Oboe Quartet, K. 370/368b
 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 ("Pastoral")
 * Symphony No. 8, Op. 93
 * Romance No. 2 for violin and orchestra, Op. 50
 * String Quartet No. 1, Op. 18/1
 * String Quartet No. 7, Op. 59/1
 * String Quartet No. 16, Op. 135
 * Violin Sonata No. 5, Op. 24 (Frühling)
 * Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 10/2
 * Piano Sonata No. 22, Op. 54
 * Horn Sonata, Op. 17
 * Carl Maria von Weber
 * Bassoon Concerto
 * Franz Schubert
 * Octet, D. 803
 * Mass No. 1, D. 105
 * Deutsche Messe (German Mass), D 872
 * Adagio and Rondo Concertante for piano quartet, D. 487
 * Felix Mendelssohn
 * Violin Sonata No. 1
 * Violin Sonata No. 3
 * Franz Liszt
 * Transcendental Étude No. 3 "Paysage"
 * Frédéric Chopin
 * Ballade No. 2
 * Étude Op. 10, No. 8 "Sunshine/Encore"
 * Nocturne Op. 15, No. 1
 * Étude Op. 25, No. 3 "The Horseman"
 * Prelude Op. 28, No. 23 "Pleasure Boat"
 * Waltz Op. 34, No. 3
 * Charles-Valentin Alkan
 * Prelude Op. 31, No. 11 "Un petit rien"
 * Johannes Brahms
 * Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
 * String Quintet No. 1, Op. 88
 * Symphony No. 3, Op. 90
 * Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 99
 * Anton Bruckner
 * String Quintet
 * Maurice Ravel
 * String Quartet
 * George Gershwin
 * Concerto in F
 * Dmitri Shostakovich
 * String Quartet No. 3, Op. 73
 * Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 102
 * Antonín Dvořák
 * Symphony No. 5, Op. 76
 * String Quartet No. 12 (American Quartet), Op. 96