I found this sheet music for a quartet by Haydn:
As you can see, on the cover it says B♭ major/ B-Dur / Si♭ majeur.
I can understand the first and the third terms, but is B-Dur another way of saying B♭? And why?
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Sign up to join this communityI found this sheet music for a quartet by Haydn:
As you can see, on the cover it says B♭ major/ B-Dur / Si♭ majeur.
I can understand the first and the third terms, but is B-Dur another way of saying B♭? And why?
B is the German name for Bb (B natural is called H). Then "Dur" is the German for "major" (which again is really from Italian 'duro').