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What would a piece of music look like that doesn’t have a key signature?
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Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
Here, just enough information is shared in advance — often just a key signature and tempo — to harmonize collaboration, sometimes accommodating guests.
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Steve Smith, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
Most of the songs were sung a half-step down from their original key signature.
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Katie Reul, Variety, 18 Oct. 2022
Once the saxophone riff was added, the song was completely reworked around that, and nothing else but the tempo and key signature was retained.
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Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 July 2021
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First Known Use
1843, in the meaning defined above
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“Key signature.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/key%20signature. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
key signature
noun
: the sharps or flats placed after a clef in music to indicate the key
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