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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.
The notes A ♭ and G ♯ are the only notes to have only one enharmonic, since they cannot be reached in any other way by a single or double sharp or a single or double flat from any of the seven white notes. In the medieval period the musical note G# was known as gesolreut within the Guidonian hand hexachord system. [3]
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
G-sharp, G ♯ or G# may refer to: G-sharp minor, a musical key; G-sharp major, a musical key; G♯ (musical note) Granville Sharp, an eighteenth-century abolitionist; G-sharp guitar, designed by Øivin Fjeld
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 ...
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G major is the key stipulated for the royal anthem of Canada, "God Save the King". [4] The anthem " God Defend New Zealand " ("Aotearoa") was originally composed by John Joseph Woods in A-flat major , but after becoming New Zealand's national anthem in 1977, it was rearranged into G major to better suit general and massed singing. [ 5 ]
In October 2007, the Guinness Book of World Records certified the coin as the world’s largest gold coin. The coin’s front shows Queen Elizabeth II, while the reverse shows a Canadian maple leaf.