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  • For all its rambunctious energy, Rossini's music is full of subtle details here, especially in the contrasting middle section in C-sharp minor — pianissimo again — dominated by a rushing line of wordless patter for the first violins with soft woodwind and string accompaniment.

    The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

  • Net (dot-net) platform, which the host liked to call C-sharp.

    Outsiderism at the Game Developers Conference « PubliCola 2010

  • And a special voodoo curse on whoever decided that the proper low key for Brahms '"O wüsst' ich doch den Weg zurück "should be C-sharp major.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • For example, listen to the Ballade in G-minor and the Scherzo in C-sharp minor.

    Chopin's 'Soul and Heart' Byron Janis 2010

  • But I don't think it's just coincidental — Schubert is, at the same time, acknowledging the desirous intent musically: the shift from C-natural to C-sharp between measures 2 and 6, the way the repeated "Röslein" of the refrain is set to a rising scale, one that them humorously tumbles back down the octave range of the song.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • And a special voodoo curse on whoever decided that the proper low key for Brahms '"O wüsst' ich doch den Weg zurück "should be C-sharp major.

    O wie mich sehnet auszuruhn Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • For example, listen to the Ballade in G-minor and the Scherzo in C-sharp minor.

    Chopin's 'Soul and Heart' Byron Janis 2010

  • For example, listen to the Ballade in G-minor and the Scherzo in C-sharp minor.

    Chopin's 'Soul and Heart' Byron Janis 2010

  • For example, listen to the Ballade in G-minor and the Scherzo in C-sharp minor.

    Chopin's 'Soul and Heart' Byron Janis 2010

  • She's the rare singer who can conjure an ocean of love trouble in the space between C and C-sharp.

    Elis Regina: The Feeling Between The Notes 2010

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