F? major (or the key of F?) is a major scale based on F?, consisting of the pitches F?, G?, A?, B, C?, D?, and E?. Its key signature has six sharps.
The F? major scale is:
Its relative minor is D? minor (or enharmonically E? minor). Its parallel minor is F? minor. Its enharmonic equivalent is G? major. In writing music for transposing instruments in B? or E?, it is preferable to use a G? rather than an F? key signature. If F? major must absolutely be used, one should take care that B? wind instruments be notated in A? major, rather than G? major (or G instruments used instead, giving a transposed key of B major), and D? instruments in F major instead of E? major, in order to avoid double sharps in key signatures.
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Music in F? major
F? major is the key of the minuet in Joseph Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony, of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 24, Op. 78, of Chopin's Barcarolle, of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, of Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony, of Erich Korngold's Symphony Op. 40, of Scriabin's Fourth Sonata. The key was the favorite tonality of Olivier Messiaen, who used it repeatedly throughout his work to express his most exciting or transcendent moods, most notably in the Turangalîla-Symphonie.
In a few scores, the F? major key signature in the bass clef is written with the sharp for the A on the top line.
Like G? major, this key is rarely used in orchestral music, other than in passing. It is more common in piano music, such as the sonatas of Scriabin and Grieg's Lyric Pieces.
The Presentation of the Rose scene in act two of Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier is written in F? major.
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References
External links
- Media related to F-sharp major at Wikimedia Commons
- List of instrumental music in F-sharp major
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