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F-sharp minor

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[ef shahrp mahy-ner] / ˈɛf ˌʃɑrp ˈmaɪ nər /

noun

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


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Anyone who worries whether Sorey has the chops to create “normal” music can sample “Movement,” on “Alloy,” which opens with a ravishingly melancholy piano solo in F-sharp minor.

From The New Yorker Apr. 15, 2019

The pianist ended with a revelatory account of Brahms’s feisty, craggy Sonata No. 2 in F-sharp minor, one of the works the 19-year-old Brahms showed the Schumanns when he first met them.

From New York Times Aug. 20, 2017

The Polonaise in F-sharp minor was damned years ago by Liszt, who found that it contained pathologic states.

From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by James Huneker

In F-sharp minor, dedicated to M. A. d'Augusz.

From Franz Liszt by James Huneker

"In Autumn," a very sprightly composition in F-sharp minor, in a good 4/8 rhythm, capable of very charming effect.

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

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