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The D#/Eb Minor Chord Position on the Guitar: A Little Awkward, But a Nice Sound.D-Sharp or E-Flat Minor: The Eeyore of the Minor Keys.

Meanwhile, the E horns would have parts written with a B minor key signature. If D-sharp minor must absolutely be used, one should take care that B ♭ wind instruments be notated in F minor, rather than E-sharp minor (or G instruments used instead, giving a transposed key of G-sharp minor), and B ♮ instruments in E minor, in order to avoid double sharps in key signatures. For orchestration of piano music, some theorists recommend transposing the music to D minor or E minor. ĭespite the key rarely being used in orchestral music other than to modulate, it is not entirely uncommon in keyboard music. In a few scores, 6-sharp key signatures in the bass clef are written with the sharp for the A on the top line. The second movement from Charles-Valentin Alkan's Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges', subtitled Quasi- Faust, is also in D-sharp minor (but ends in F-sharp major), and modulates into even sharper keys along the way, some even being theoretical keys, such as G-sharp major and D-sharp major. 12 is in this key, perhaps the most famous example. The second of Lyapunov's 12 Transcendental Études ("Ronde des Fantômes") is also in D-sharp minor.Īlexander Scriabin's Etude Op. In the 24 canonic keys, most of the composers preferred E-flat minor, while Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Lyapunov, and Manuel Ponce preferred D-sharp minor.įrom Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, the eighth fugue from Book 1 and the eighth prelude and fugue from Book 2 are in D-sharp minor both fugues end with a Picardy third, requiring an F in the final D-sharp major chord. More common is notation in E-flat minor, which is a relatively manageable key for many brass instruments and woodwinds. Music in D-sharp minor ĭ-sharp minor is infrequently used as the principal key of pieces in the Classical era. Audio playback is not supported in your browser.