F-sharp minor

American  

[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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Example Sentences

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 transition begins in measure 39; at first with a repetition of the main theme, which soon modulates to F-sharp minor, in which key the second theme enters, in measure 51.

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

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

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James

"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 Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)