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The 10 pages that link to Key signature, each with the reason it gives.

• Musical notationRelated: Key signatures establish pitch alterations that apply across a passage.

• ChromaticismRelated: Chromatic accidentals depart from the pitches established by the key signature.

• Diatonic scaleRelated: Key signatures efficiently notate the pitch collection of a diatonic scale.

• Figured bassRelated: Key signatures affect the intervals implied by figures unless an accidental overrides them.

• The Star-Spangled BannerRelated: The anthem’s performance arrangements often choose a key suited to the singer.

• Major scaleRelated: Key signatures encode the note changes needed to realize major scales on the staff.

• Minor scaleRelated: It usually encodes the pitches of a key’s natural minor scale.

• ModulationRelated: A change of key may bring a new key signature, though modulation can occur without one.

• Sheet musicRelated: It establishes which notes are altered throughout much of a score.

• Circle of fifthsRelated: The circle's positions correspond to the sharps or flats used by each key.