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b flat

Noun

Meaning

B flat (plural B flats)

Alternative spelling of B-flat

b flat (plural b flats)

Alternative spelling of B-flat

(music) The note one semitone below B, notated B♭.

(slang) A bedbug.
Coordinate term: F-sharp

b-flat (plural b-flats)

Alternative spelling of B-flat

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Alternative names

b-flat

Examples

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet. Gerry Mulligan

In almost every edition (and consequently most performances) of Chopin's Sonata in B flat Minor, Op. 35, there is a serious error that makes awkward nonsense of an important moment in the first movement. The repeat of the exposition begins in the wrong place. Charles Rosen

Almost all sopranos append cadenzas to the end of the "Mad Scene", sometimes ending them on a high keynote (E-flat or F, depending on the key in which they are singing, though Mado Robin takes an even higher B-flat citation ). Source: Internet

Arnold Schoenberg 's Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra in B-flat major (1933) was composed after Handel's Concerto Grosso, Op. 6/7. Source: Internet

Clementi also published two symphonies as Op. 18 in 1787, the first in B-flat major and the second in D major. Source: Internet

For example, the note A has a frequency of 440 Hz and B-flat has a frequency of 466 Hz. Source: Internet

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