When writing works in all 24 major and minor keys, Alkan, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Shchedrin and Winding used G-flat major over F-sharp major. As well as it is used in Ravel's famous " Gaspard de la nuit", in the movement, "Le Gibet".Ī striking use of G-flat major can be found in the love duet "Tu l'as dit" that concludes the fourth act of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots. It is the predominant key of Maurice Ravel's Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet. It is more often used as a main key for piano works, such as the impromptus of Chopin and Schubert. Like F-sharp major, G-flat major is rarely chosen as the main key for orchestral works. The key signature is shown as in the LilyPond example with the scale above, starting with the C ♯ and ending at the F. The final pages of A World Requiem by John Foulds are written in G-sharp major with its correct key signature shown in the vocal score including the F. The end of the exposition of the second movement Charles-Valentin Alkan's Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges', subtitled Quasi-Faust, is in G-sharp major, albeit written with a six-sharp key signature (the movement opens in D-sharp minor and ends in F-sharp major). 1 is in G-sharp major, although the key signature has four sharps. A section in the second movement of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. G-sharp major is tonicised briefly in several of Frédéric Chopin's nocturnes in C-sharp minor. The G-sharp minor prelude (and the fugue) from the same set ends with a Picardy third, on a G-sharp major chord. You can download the audio file.Īlthough the enharmonic key of A-flat major is preferred because A-flat major has only four flats as opposed to G-sharp major's eight sharps (including the F ), G-sharp major appears as a secondary key area in several works in sharp keys, most notably in the Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major from Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1. Audio playback is not supported in your browser.
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