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Piano Music by Key Signature

Every public-domain piano work in the ClassicNotes library, organized by the key in which it was composed. Each key signature has its own character on the keyboard — these pages collect the music that lives in that color.

Western tonal music acquired, over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, an elaborate language of key character — the sense that C minor was tragic, A-flat major confidential, E major sunlit, F-sharp minor restless. Composers from C. P. E. Bach through Scriabin took these associations seriously and chose their tonalities accordingly.

For the modern pianist, browsing by key is a practical organizing tool too. It makes it easy to assemble recital sets that share a tonal centre, to find appropriate transposition models, or simply to study how different generations approached the same harmonic territory.

A major51 scores A major (Military)1 scores A minor106 scores A-flat major71 scores A-flat major (Heroic)1 scores A-flat major (Polonaise-Fantaisie)1 scores B major39 scores B minor43 scores B-flat major52 scores B-flat minor23 scores C major97 scores C minor70 scores C-sharp major31 scores C-sharp minor51 scores D major70 scores D minor58 scores D-flat major27 scores D-flat major (Minute)1 scores E major56 scores E minor50 scores E-flat major73 scores E-flat minor32 scores F major63 scores F minor57 scores F-sharp major41 scores F-sharp minor47 scores G major109 scores G minor39 scores G-flat major7 scores G-sharp minor22 scores