CIRCLE of FIFTHS Music Lovers Art Gift Gold Black

This art features the Circle of Fifths. Makes an ideal gift for a music student, music teacher, musician, music lover, pianist. The Circle of Fifths is a musical concept that represents the relationship between the twelve tones of the chromatic scale, which are the building blocks of Western music. It is called the "Circle of Fifths" because it arranges the twelve pitches in a circle, in intervals of a perfect fifth, which is a musical interval that spans seven semitones. Starting with any pitch on the circle, if you move clockwise, you go up a perfect fifth, while if you move counterclockwise, you go down a perfect fifth. In other words, if you start on C, and go clockwise to G, then to D, A, E, and so on, you will have covered all twelve pitches in the chromatic scale in ascending order. The circle of fifths is a useful tool for musicians because it shows the relationships between keys and chords. Each key on the circle is related to the one next to it by a common tone, and the chords within each key are also related to each other in a predictable way. For example, the key of C major is adjacent to G major and F major on the circle, which means that those three keys share many common tones and chords. In addition to showing the relationships between keys, the circle of fifths can also be used to determine the key signature of a piece of music. The key signature is the set of sharps or flats that appear at the beginning of a piece of music, indicating which key the music is in. The number of sharps or flats in a key signature can be determined by counting the number of steps clockwise or counterclockwise on the circle from C major to the desired key. For example, the key of G major has one sharp, because it is one step clockwise from C major on the circle. Overall, the circle of fifths is a powerful tool for understanding the structure of Western music, and for analyzing and composing music in a variety of keys and styles. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/