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F-sharp minor, a minor musical key with three sharps This page was last edited on 15 February 2020, at 19:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
A piece in a major key might modulate up a fifth to the dominant (a common occurrence in Western music), resulting in a new key signature with an additional sharp. If the original key was C-sharp, such a modulation would lead to the theoretical key of G-sharp major (with eight sharps) requiring an F in place of the F ♯. This section could be ...
The staff below has a key signature with three sharps (A major or its relative minor, F ♯ minor). The sharp symbol placed on the note indicates that it is an A ♯ instead of an A ♮ . In twelve-tone equal temperament tuning (the predominant system of tuning in Western music), raising a note's pitch by a semitone results in a note that is ...
Notes that are shown as sharp or flat in a key signature will be played that way in every octave—e.g., a key signature with a B ♭ indicates that every B is played as a B ♭. A key signature indicates the prevailing key of the music and eliminates the need to use accidentals for the notes that are always flat or sharp in that key. A key ...
3 sharps 15 G major: 1 sharp 16 G minor: 2 flats 17 A♭ major: 4 flats 18 Either G# minor: 5 sharps Alkan wrote a piece in A♭ minor, and Brahms a fugue in this key, but most composers have preferred G# minor. or A♭ minor: 7 flats 19 A major: 3 sharps 20 A minor: No sharps or flats 21 B♭ major: 2 flats 22 Either B♭ minor: 5 flats
When a musical key or key signature is referred to in a language other than English, that language may use the usual notation used in English (namely the letters A to G, along with translations of the words sharp, flat, major and minor in that language): languages which use the English system include Irish, Welsh, Hindi, Japanese (based on katakana in iroha order), Korean (based on hangul in ...
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Its key signature has three sharps. Its relative minor is F-sharp minor and its parallel minor is A minor. The key of A major is the only key where the Neapolitan sixth chord on (i.e. the flattened supertonic) requires both a flat and a natural accidental. The A major scale is: