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n. (context music English) a minor key with the notes C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, A, B
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C-sharp minor or C minor is a minor scale based on C, with the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. For the C-sharp harmonic minor, the B is raised to B. Its key signature consists of four sharps.
Its relative major is E major. Its parallel major, C major, is usually replaced by D major, since C major, which would contain seven sharps, is not normally used. D minor, having eight flats, including the B, has a similar problem. Therefore, C minor is often used as the parallel minor for D major.
Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary.
Usage examples of "c-sharp minor".
Drkh are about halfway up the aisle, Waterhouse slams into that old chestnut, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, except that he's transposing it into C-sharp minor as he goes along, because (according to a very elegant calculation that just came into his head as he was running up the aisle of the church) it ought to sound good that way when played in Mr.
The Hegemony Consul sat on the balcony of his ebony spaceship and played Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp Minor on an ancient but well-maintained Steinway while great, green, saurian things surged and bellowed in the swamps below.