C-sharp minor

C-sharp minor is a minor scale based on C-sharp, consisting of the pitches C-sharp, D-sharp, E, F-sharp, G-sharp, A, B-sharp and C-sharp (harmonic minor scale). Its key signature consists of four sharps.

Related Topics:
Minor scale - Key signature

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Its relative major is E major, and its parallel major is C-sharp major.

Related Topics:
Relative major - E major - Parallel major - C-sharp major

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Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary.

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There are only two known Symphonies in the 18th Century written in this key. One of them is by Joseph Martin Kraus, but he appears to have found the key a bit difficult since he later rewrote it in C minor. Even in the following two centuries C-sharp minor Symphonies remained rare, with few besides Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 and Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 7 in C-sharp minor.

Related Topics:
Joseph Martin Kraus - C minor - Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 - Sergei Prokofiev

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This key occurs more often in piano literature, however, from the 18th Century onwards. Domenico Scarlatti wrote just two keyboard sonatas in C-sharp minor, K. 246 and K. 247. But after Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, the key became more frequent in the piano repertoire.

Related Topics:
Domenico Scarlatti - Beethoven

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