G-sharp minor

[jee shahrp mahy-ner]

noun

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

Example Sentences

An unambiguously tonal section ensues, more or less in the key of G-sharp minor.

From The New Yorker

He pulled listeners through a narrative that moved from a cautious, increasingly energetic sense of discovery in No. 1, in C — as if the pianist were feeling out the very rules of fugue itself — to the dark, arresting opening of the 12th fugue in G-sharp minor.

From Washington Post

The final scale is – mainly – G-sharp minor, and again I am going to have to learn it note by note, never having previously considered playing G-sharp minor scales to be an essential life skill.

From The Guardian

In Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G-Sharp Minor, he caressed the delicate, almost impressionistic filigree, and he unleashed an impressively big sound on Beethoven's Six Variations in D Major, Opus 76, whose lumbering melody Beethoven used later for the "Turkish March" in The Ruins of Athens.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or are you acquainted with the G-sharp minor Prelude?

From Project Gutenberg