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F-sharp minor
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F-sharp minor is a minor scale based on F sharp. Its key signature has three sharps.
Quick Facts Relative key, A major ...
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Relative key | A major | |
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Parallel key | F♯ major | |
Dominant key | ||
Subdominant | ||
Notes in this scale | ||
F♯, G♯, A, B, C♯, D, E, F♯ | ||
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Its relative major is A major.
Many people think it is a melancholy and gloomy key. Harry Farjeon says that F sharp minor is "light red", and that it is the key Mendelssohn uses when he is being passionate. Johann Mattheson wrote that 'F♯ minor, although it leads to great distress, nevertheless is more languid and love-sick than lethal. Moreover, it has something abandoned, singular, and misanthropic about it.'