C-sharp minor

[see shahrp mahy-ner]

noun

1. Music.,  the key that has C sharp as the tonic or first note of its scale and is represented by a key signature having four sharps.

Example Sentences

Some, like C-sharp minor, had fallen completely off the intonation table.

From Washington Post

None of it sounds faintly like Rachmaninoff, who became so popular that he grew to hate the showy C-Sharp Minor Prelude for which he was known.

From Los Angeles Times

After a 2014 concert in Santa Barbara at which they performed Beethoven’s C-Sharp Minor string quartet, Times classical music critic Mark Swed called the players “marvelous” and wrote, “Their command of the quartet’s challenging arch-shape formal structure was complete. They could be grounded in their tone or mystical. They allowed time to stand still, and they could assume the pose of excitingly aggressive rockers. They did it all.”

From Los Angeles Times

In Brooklyn, his improvisation in C-sharp minor was gently jazzy, with passages of jumpy riffs alternating with delicate filigree.

From New York Times

For a brief 15-second span, the violas and cellos state a hushed, reverential hymn in pure, unadulterated C-sharp minor.

From Washington Post