F-sharp minor

[ef shahrp mahy-ner]

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.

Example Sentences

He pointed to the Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor: “You think of Brahms and Mozart clarinet quintets, but this is up there. It holds its own.”

From New York Times

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

I got extra adrenaline, listening to Dora Pejacevic’s Symphony in f-sharp minor, from my indignation that this composer is so unknown; David Lang’s “The Day,” with a litany of people’s memories of personal milestones, became a series of affirmations; and I learned the “Hamilton” soundtrack by heart.

From Washington Post

If you name Dora Pejacevic, whose Symphony in F-sharp minor sounds like a Croatian cousin of Strauss; or William Grant Still, whose Symphony No. 1, “Afro-American,” shows where Gershwin got a lot of his ideas, you might even catch aficionados by surprise.

From Washington Post

While our song’s melody chords are E, A and B, I played E, C-sharp minor, F-sharp minor and B, to offset them.

From Wall Street Journal