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Most composers prefer to use the enharmonic equivalent D-flat major since it contains five flats as opposed to C-sharp major's seven sharps. However, Johann Sebastian Bach chose C-sharp major for Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in both books of The Well-Tempered Clavier.
Its relative major is E major.Its parallel major, C-sharp major, is usually written instead as the enharmonic key of D-flat major, since C-sharp major’s key signature with seven sharps is not normally used.
P. Piano Concerto (Beach) Piano Concerto (Poulenc) Piano Concerto (Rimsky-Korsakov) Piano Concerto No. 3 (Ries) Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor (Tchaikovsky)
In the Classical period, C major was the key most often chosen for symphonies with trumpets and timpani. Even in the Romantic period, with its greater use of minor keys and the ability to use trumpets and timpani in any key, C major remained a very popular choice of key for a symphony.
In most cases, a sharp raises the pitch of a note one semitone while a flat lowers it one semitone. A natural is used to cancel the effect of a flat or sharp. This system of accidentals operates in conjunction with the key signature, whose effect continues throughout an entire piece, or until another key signature is indicated.
A-sharp minor is a minor musical scale based on A ♯, consisting of the pitches A ♯, B ♯, C ♯, D ♯, E ♯, F ♯, and G ♯.Its key signature has seven ...
In music, sharp – eqv. dièse (from French) or diesis (from Greek δίεσις) [a] – means higher in pitch.The sharp symbol, ♯, indicates that the note to which the symbol is applied is played one semitone higher.
In Western musical notation, a key signature is a set of sharp (♯), flat (♭), or rarely, natural (♮) symbols placed on the staff at the beginning of a section of music. . The initial key signature in a piece is placed immediately after the clef at the beginning of the first l