a-flat
Noun
Meaning
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
Alternative names
a flat
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Examples
A flat bench is a necessity when building the perfect home gym and this model from Adidas is compact, extremely durable and versatile.
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).
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.
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.
"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).
His next work, a polonaise in A-flat major of 1821, dedicated to Żywny, is his earliest surviving musical manuscript.