Noun
A flat (plural A flats)
Alternative spelling of A-flat
a flat (plural a flats)
Alternative spelling of A-flat
(music) A tone one semitone below A, between G and A, denoted A♭.
The bassoon came in on a low A-flat.
(music) A key or other mechanism for producing an A-flat.
I had to take it to the shop because the A-flat was stuck.
(music) The key of A-flat major.
We will now hear the third sonata, in A-flat.
a-flat (uncountable)
Alternative spelling of A-flat
a flat
A flat bench is a necessity when building the perfect home gym and this model from Adidas is compact, extremely durable and versatile. Source: Internet
Composer William Grant Still used excerpts from four dialect poems by Dunbar as epigraphs for the four movements of his Symphony No. 1 in A-flat, "Afro-American" (1930). Source: Internet
The csakan was played using the fingerings of a recorder in C, and was typically pitched in A-flat or G and played as a transposing instrument. Source: Internet
The swaggering immediacy of the famous A major Op. 40, No. 1 and “Heroic” A-flat Op. 53 stirs up Polish pride in the same way that Americans respond to Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever. Source: Internet
"Princess Ida Returns", The Manchester Guardian, 28 September 1954, p. 5 Florian's statement in "Gently, Gently": "In this college, useful knowledge/Everywhere one finds" is a quotation from Chopin's Waltz No. 5 in A-flat Major (Op. 42). Source: Internet
His next work, a polonaise in A-flat major of 1821, dedicated to Żywny, is his earliest surviving musical manuscript. Source: Internet