F-sharp

Some songs are written in the disquieting key of F-sharp minor.

The Recovering Pop Artist Jim Fusilli 2011

Scriabin's Poème in F-sharp, Op. 32, No. 1, was as diaphanous and lovingly phrased on Saturday's program as that composer's G-sharp Minor Etude, Op.

Two views of Yuja Wang: In performance... 2010

The Barcarolle in F-sharp and the B-flat minor Scherzo, with their outbursts of passion, both grew muddy, the contours of their climaxes blurred by the pedal.

Music review: Emanuel Ax at Strathmore Anne Midgette 2010

BUT...we were doing exercises and then he said that the notes I had just sung so easily and confidently...included "that" F-sharp.

From Twitter 11-10-2009 e_moon60 2009

Unfortunately, by the time we got to the last music we practiced in choir this evening, I was tired and my throat was scratchy, and I had trouble doing a decent D two whole tones below the F-sharp.

From Twitter 11-10-2009 e_moon60 2009

That point of tension is surrounded by chords all related to either subdominant IV (including the F-sharp minor triads, which are, after all, the relative minor of IV) or the subdominant substitution ii.

Archive 2007-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

That point of tension is surrounded by chords all related to either subdominant IV (including the F-sharp minor triads, which are, after all, the relative minor of IV) or the subdominant substitution ii.

Our Prayer Matthew Guerrieri 2007

The medieval Catholic Church banned the musical interval of an augmented fourth, the distance between C and F-sharp and also known as a tritone (the interval in Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story when Tony sings the name "Maria").

If they thought a tritone was devilish... L. Lee Lowe 2006

The medieval Catholic Church banned the musical interval of an augmented fourth, the distance between C and F-sharp and also known as a tritone (the interval in Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story when Tony sings the name "Maria").

Archive 2006-11-01 L. Lee Lowe 2006

I also remember Slonimsky talking about an all-triad row in one of his books; I think it stacked up C major, Bb major, G-sharp minor, F-sharp minor.

Alone together Matthew Guerrieri 2006