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A major

Relative key	F♯ minor
Parallel key	A minor
Component pitches
A, B, C♯, D, E, F♯, G♯, A

A major is a major scale based on A, consisting of the pitches A, B, C♯, D, E, F♯, G♯, and A. Its key signature consists of three sharps.

Its relative minor is F-sharp minor and its parallel minor is A minor. A major is the only key in which a Neapolitan sixth chord on requires both a flat and a natural accidental.

Although not as rare in the symphonic literature as sharper keys, examples of symphonies in A major are not as numerous as for D major or G major. Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, Bruckner's Symphony No. 6 and Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 comprise a nearly complete list of symphonies in this key in the Romantic era. Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet Quintet are both in A major.

In chamber music, A major occurs more often. Both Brahms and Franck wrote violin sonatas in A major.

According to Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, A major is a key suitable for "declarations of innocent love, ... hope of seeing one's beloved again when parting; youthful cheerfulness and trust in God."

For orchestral works in A major, the timpani are typically set to A and E a fifth apart, rather than a fourth apart as for most other keys.

• 3rd Rock From The Sun theme
• ABC News theme song
• A Kind of Magic - Queen
• Beautiful Soul - Jesse McCartney
• Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (in pseudo-operatic section)
• Can't Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon
• Cars - Gary Numan
• Champagne Supernova - Oasis
• Clifford the Big Red Dog TV Theme - Mark Mothersbaugh
• Country House - Blur
• Crazy - Aerosmith
• Dancing Queen - ABBA
• Dawn (Go Away) - The Four Seasons
• Dig In - Lenny Kravitz
• Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
• Get Back - The Beatles
• Gloria - Laura Branigan
• Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
• Hey! Baby - Bruce Channel
• Highway To Hell - AC/DC
• I Want You to Want Me - Cheap Trick
• I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton
• I'll Be There For You - Rembrandts (Friends theme)
• Is This The Way To Amarillo - Neil Sedaka/Howard Greenfield
• It's All in the Game - Tommy Edwards, based on "Melody in A Major" by Charles Gates Dawes
• It's My Party - Lesley Gore
• Jaded - Aerosmith
• Jesus, Take the Wheel - Carrie Underwood
• Jump (For My Love) - Pointer Sisters (last verse in F major)
• MMMBop - Hanson
• Mother and Child Reunion - Paul Simon
• Never Be The Same - Christopher Cross
• Our House- Crosby, Stills & Nash
• Rescue Me - Fontella Bass
• Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley
• Sailing - Christopher Cross
• Short People - Randy Newman
• Shout to the Lord - Darlene Zschech (also in B major)
• Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own - U2
• Stand By Me - Ben E. King
• A Summer Song - Chad & Jeremy
• Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
• Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
• Upside Down - A-Teens
• We Are Family - Sister Sledge
• We Have All the Time in the World - Louis Armstrong

• Colin Lawson, Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, A Cambridge Music Handbook, Cambridge University Press, 1996

Diatonic Scales and Keys
	Flats Sharps Major minor Major minor 0 C (Major), a (minor) 1 F d G e 2 B♭ g D b 3 E♭ c A f♯ 4 A♭ f E c♯ 5 D♭ b♭ B g♯ 6 G♭ e♭ F♯ d♯ 7 C♭ a♭ C♯ a♯
lower case letters are minor the table indicates the number of sharps or flats in each scale

• A Major - Free A Major Scale Print Out with Arpeggios and Broken Chords for Piano with Fingering