C-sharp minor

American  

[see shahrp mahy-ner] / ˈsi ˌʃɑrp ˈmaɪ nər /

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.

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Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2022

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

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2019

Will you be so good as to get Schott to let me know the fate of the C-sharp minor Quartet?

From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso by Bache, Constance

The first movement is an impassioned kind of revery—in a mood more often associated with the slow movement, in character somewhat like the beginning of Beethoven's C-sharp minor Sonata.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond

One of the most charming, although a small one, is that in C-sharp minor, which is built upon three leading motives.

From The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)