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A-flat minor, its enharmonic, has seven flats, whereas G-sharp minor only has five sharps; thus G-sharp minor is sometimes used as the parallel minor for A-flat major. (The same enharmonic situation occurs with the keys of D-flat major and C-sharp minor, and in some cases, with the keys of G-flat major and F-sharp minor).
Étude Op. 25, No. 6, in G-sharp minor, is a technical study composed by Frédéric Chopin focusing on thirds, trilling them at a high speed.Also called the Double Thirds Étude, it is considered one of the hardest of Chopin's 24 Études, ranking the highest level of difficulty according to the Henle difficulty rankings.
Although the enharmonic key of A-flat major is preferred because A-flat major has only four flats as opposed to G-sharp major's eight sharps (including the F), G-sharp major appears as a secondary key area in several works in sharp keys, most notably in the Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major from Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1.
Book I: 14 major and minor keys on the white notes; Book II: 10 sharp keys; Book III: 10 flat keys Yevgeny Svetlanov: 12 Preludes piano 1978 [ch] 12 selected major and minor keys, in random order [201] Sembiin Gonchigsumlaa: 24 Preludes piano 1978–79 C5 [n] [202] Yasushi Akutagawa: 24 Preludes: The Piano Pieces for Children piano 1979 C5* [y ...
Symphony in C-sharp minor (1902) Joseph Martin Kraus. Symphony in C-sharp minor, VB 140. Identified by musicologist Bertil H. van Boer in program notes for the Naxos recording as one of only two C-sharp minor symphonies written in the 18th century. Gustav Mahler. Symphony No. 5 (1902) - Mahler objected to this key assignment, preferring none at all
G♯ (G-sharp) or sol dièse is the ninth semitone of the solfège.In the German pitch nomenclature, it is known as gis. [1]It lies a chromatic semitone above G and a diatonic semitone below A, thus being enharmonic to la bémol or A ♭ (A-flat).
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Most often at the beginning and end of traditional pieces during the common practice period, the tonic, sometimes with its corresponding tonic chord, begins and ends a piece in a designated key. A key may be major or minor. Music can be described as being in the Dorian mode, or Phrygian, etc., and is thus usually thought of as in a specific ...