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(The same enharmonic situation occurs with the keys of D-flat major and C-sharp minor, and in some cases, with the keys of G-flat major and F-sharp minor). The G-sharp natural minor scale is: Audio playback is not supported in your browser.
The G-Sharp is tuned accordingly, and the standard tuning is identical to putting a capo on the 4th fret on a regular guitar: G#-D#-B-F#-C#-G# As G# and A♭ is the same musical note it would be correct to say that it is an A-flat instrument, but naming his guitar and his company Fjeld chose to ignore this fact, and it is not mentioned anywhere.
A musical passage notated as flats. The same passage notated as sharps, requiring fewer canceling natural signs. Sets of notes that involve pitch relationships — scales, key signatures, or intervals, [1] for example — can also be referred to as enharmonic (e.g., the keys of C ♯ major and D ♭ major contain identical pitches and are therefore enharmonic).
G♯ (G-sharp) or sol dièse is the ninth semitone of the solfège.In the German pitch nomenclature, it is known as gis. [1]It lies a chromatic semitone above G and a diatonic semitone below A, thus being enharmonic to la bémol or A ♭ (A-flat).
Although the enharmonic key of A-flat major is preferred because A-flat major has only four flats as opposed to G-sharp major's eight sharps (including the F), G-sharp major appears as a secondary key area in several works in sharp keys, most notably in the Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major from Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1.
(The same enharmonic situation also occurs with the keys of D-flat major and C-sharp minor.) Scale degree chords. The scale degree chords of A-flat major are:
More often, pieces in a minor mode that have A-flat's pitch as tonic are notated in the enharmonic key, G-sharp minor, because that key has just five sharps as opposed to the seven flats of A-flat minor.
Four of the scale notes – the tonic (C in the example), subdominant (F), dominant (G), and octave (C′) – are all fixed: They are nearly exactly the same relative pitches in all three categories of ancient Greek scales (enharmonic, chromatic, and diatonic), [4] and in ancient Greek music, the fixed tones relative pitches were very nearly the same as the corresponding notes in the modern ...